The Optimist LP

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The Optimist LP
Studio album by Turin Brakes
Released	5 March 2001
Studio	Konk, London
Genre	Folk rock
Length	51:36
Label	Source
Producer	Turin Brakes
Turin Brakes chronology
Fight or Flight (2000) The Optimist LP (2001) Ether Song (2003)

The Optimist LP is the first full-length album release by Turin Brakes in 2001. "The Door" and "The Road" (previously released on The Door EP) were re-recorded for this album.

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]}