The Optimist LP is the first full-length album release by Turin Brakes in 2001.

The album was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize.

[1] In late 2011, Turin Brakes embarked on a national tour performing the whole of the album in its entirety for its tenth anniversary and again in 2021 for its twentieth anniversary.

[citation needed] Q listed The Optimist LP as one of the best 50 albums of 2001.

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