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| MTV: | "Bush To Drop 'Science' In Spring" |
| Rolling Stone: | "Beating Around The Bush" |
| Rocktropolis: | "Bush Puts Finishing Touches On The Science Of Things" |
| Alternative Press: | "Twenty-Five Most Anticipated Albums of 1999" |
| Kerrang!: | Random Notes |
| All Star: | "Bush, Damnations Set To Sizzle In 1999" |
| JamTV!: | "Gavin Rossdale & Co. Still Beating Around The Bush" |
"Bush To Drop 'Science' In Spring"
Spokespeople for Bush announced on Tuesday that the band will return to record racks in the spring of 1999 with its third album, titled "The Science of Things."
Gavin Rossdale and company are currently in a London studio mixing the 15 or 16 tracks that they plan to release on "Science," which include titles like "Ban The Bomb" and "Altered States." Bush plans to have the album's final mix completed near the new year.
When the album arrives next year, nearly three years will have passed since the group released it previous studio effort, 1996's "Razorblade Suitcase." In preparation for the "Science" recording sessions, Rossdale had holed himself up in Ireland to pen tracks for the album (see "Bush Heads Into Studio"). Instead of writing on the road as they had in the past, Rossdale and his bandmates worked in different locales this time out and sent tapes back and forth to each other during the writing process.
Once in the studio, the band re-teamed with producers Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley who handled the group's debut hit "Sixteen Stone."
- Rolling Stone: November 17, 1998 by Jaan Uhelzski
"Beating Around the Bush"
Gavin Rossdale and co. mixing forthcoming album in London Bush's Gavin Rossdale has been racking up the frequent flyer miles lately. Just before Halloween, the Brit grunger jetted to Los Angeles, where he met up with his inamorata Gwen Stefani. The duo spent All Hallows Eve sans costumes at an intimate soiree at Offspring singer Dexter Holland's Orange County digs, where according to witnesses, the couple spent the night gazing deeply into each other's eyes and smooching. Soon afterward, Rossdale returned to London long enough to pick up his toothbrush and hair gel before flying to Milan, Italy, to be a presenter, along with Natalie Imbruglia, at the European MTV Awards Show. He didn't dally in the Italian fashion capital any longer than it took to slurp up some Spaghetti Milanese and read his entry in the Nov. 16 issue of People (which named him one of the sexiest rock stars), before dashing back to a London studio where Bush are due to begin mixing tracks for The Science of Things, their forthcoming studio album.
The band has been working on their fourth album for the past eight months --ever since Rossdale went into seclusion in southern Ireland following the completion of their last tour. According to Bush spokesperson Michael Pagnotta, the singer began honing some of the songs he had penned on the road, as well as writing some new material. But instead of inviting band members guitarist Nigel Pulsford, bassist Dave Parsons and drummer Robin Goodridge to his digs, Rossdale periodically sent them works-in-progress tapes. They finally all came together in London last August and hammered out sixteen tracks for the new album.
According to Pagnotta, the band hopes to have a final mix sometime around the New Year and, if all goes according to schedule, Science will be in stores next spring. The disc was again produced by Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley, the same cheeky duo who ran the boards for Sixteen Stone, Bush's 1996 mega- platinum debut -- not to mention all that memorable stuff for Madness, Elvis Costello and Morrissey. Although the folks at Trauma Records have been tight- lipped about the release, two songs titles are confirmed: "Ban the Bomb," and "Altered States." In case you were wondering, Gwen Stefani does not make an appearance, nor are there any love songs on the disc, although Rossdale did admit in an interview earlier this year that, "She did inspire one of my foolish protest songs." However, there is a rumor that the band engaged cult screamer Poly Styrene of British punk band X-ray Spex to sing on one of the tracks.
While there is no tour planned as of yet, Pagnotta is confident that the band will hit the road soon after the release date. As you know, Bush, who originally hailed from Shepherds Bush (get it?) England, have been met with derision in their own country. But perhaps that all has changed, since the band took home the Best British Band trophy at July's Kerrang! Awards, causing Gavin Rossdale to quip, "Does that mean that we're English now?"
- Rocktropolis: December 1998, by Kevin Raub
"Bush Puts Finishing Touches On The Science Of Things"
Bush are currently mixing their third album, The Science of Things, in a London studio with Sixteen Stone producers Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley. Bush have spent the last eight months recording the follow-up to 1996's Razorblade Suitcase, with frontman Gavin Rossdale spending several months before that in Ireland writing songs for the album. The band is currently deciding among 16 tracks, down from 20 that Rossdale had written in Ireland and five or more that were written once they entered the studio. Science will likely include around 12 tracks, two of which will be "Altered States" and "Ban the Bomb." The first single is unknown at press time.
Science is tentatively scheduled for a spring 1999 release on Trauma/Interscope Records. The band will embark on a major tour in support of the album in March or April 1999.
- Alternative Press: January 1999, by John Kappes
BUSH as one of the "Twenty-Five Most Anticipated Albums of 1999"
Working Album Title: The Science of Things
Projected Release Date: February 1999, on Trauma/Interscope
Why Is It Anticipated? In 1994, Bush came out of the blue and into the multiplatinum black with Sixteen Stone, and the critics have been sharpening their knives ever since. This 3rd album provides the perfect opportunity for singer Gavin Rossdale & Co. to show everyone they can indeed rise above.
What's It Gonna Sound Like? "It definitely is a rock record," Rossdale says, but he hints that some of London's future sounds could find their way into the final mixes. The Last record [Razorblade Suitcase, recorded by Steve Albini] was supposed to reflect that time, being out on the road and all that. I felt and still feel there's no one that records bands like Steve. This time, I just felt that it was nice checking around what people were up to in England. We tried to incorporate a few things that we wouldn't have had a chance to do with Steve---more overdubs, spending a bit more time on things."
But canny corporate calculation this is not. "When you've sold a shit-load of albums," Rossdale notes, "there are a shit-load of reasons why people liked it. You'd be totally screwed if you tried to work it out."
And rather than huddling up in London with a retinue of image consultants, as his critics darkly imagine he must, Rossdale in fact wrote the new record in a house overlooking a saltwater lake on the West coast of Ireland. "It's really bleak, storm-driven," he says of the area. "I'd go to the pub, where they'd have these brilliant things like the best fiddle player you'd ever heard. It would be pouring, and I'd be drinking Murphy's. It was all very romantic, in a dark Irish way."
The band have completed quite a few tracks already, but they'll ruthlessly prune that initial batch to about a dozen for the album. "I'm thick-skinned," Rossdale says with a laugh about the editing process. "I start to resent people after they've gone on too long."
- Kerrang!: January 1999
Bush have just finished mixing their third album, 'The Science of Things', at London West Side Studios. Co-Produced by Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley (who worked on the band's 'Sixteen Stone' debut), the album is released by Interscope in March. It wil include the tracks 'Dead Meat', 'Altered States', 'Ban The Bomb', 'Jesus Online', 'Warm Machine' and 'The Disease Of The Dancing Cats'.
"We've had fun f**king around with different ideas, but it still sounds like Bush," says frontman Gavin Rossdale. "There's a real breadth and variety on the record. We've got socially conscious songs, plus millenium lifestyle songs and my usual self-obsessed dissection of my own problems." The album title relates to the millenium and the advance of technology. "It has destroyed aspects of our life and culture," claims Rossdale.
- Allstar Daily News: By Matt Galloway, Kim Hughes and Time Perlich
"Bush, Damnations set to sizzle in 1999"
Y2K may be looming, but many notable new releases are expected to drop in 1999. NOW's music writers uncover some intriguing projects slated for the forthcoming year.
BUSH -- Talk about not letting the grass grow. The British foursome's third disc, The Science Of Things, is finished and awaiting a March release. Written by Gavin Rossdale during a sabbatical in Ireland last year and recorded in London with the same production team who captured the band's Sixteen Stone CD, the disc features such smartly named tracks as Dead Meat, Altered States, Ban The Bomb, Jesus Online, Warm Machine and -- our personal fave -- Disease Of The Dancing Cats. Opines Rossdale, "We've had fun f*cking around on this record, but we still sound like Bush."
"Gavin Rossdale & Co. Still Beating Around the Bush"
Ah, the life of a rock star. Bush singer Gavin Rossdale rang in the new year by playing doorman at Gwen Stefani's New Year's Eve party, quaffing champagne and nuzzling his better half's newly crimson-tipped hair while trading quips with the equally blond, equally beautiful Taylor Hawkins, the Foo Fighters' newish drummer.
Also milling about were Red Hot Chili Peppers' John Frusciante, Anthony Kiedis and Flea, who strode in wearing the same Clockwork Orange-like garb: powder blue tuxedoes with oversized blue bowler hats. And all this celebrating despite the fact that Rossdale and Co. had just missed their self-imposed deadline for completing their eagerly awaited next album.
According to Bush's spokesperson, the band intended to have their new opus, titled The Science of Things, finished by the end of the year, but the band couldn't bear to let it go just yet, deciding to keep producers Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley on a leash a bit longer by staying in the studio for the entire month of January. The band has finished fifteen songs, including "Ban the Bomb" and "Altered States," which they played during their last tour, as well as the oddly titled "Dead Meat," "Jesus Online," and "Disease of the Dancing Cats," perhaps written for Rossdale's Hungarian sheepdog Winston, who graced the cover of Sixteen Stone and is insured by Lloyds of London for $4.8 million. After Bush tie a bow on Science, they plan to do some interviews in advance of the March release, and then head out on the road for an extended U.S. tour.
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