- Title: USA: THE BAND 'BUSH' HAS RELEASED A NEW ALBUM "GOLDEN STATE"
- Date: 15th November 2001
- Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (RECENT) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) SV (English) GAVIN ROSSDALE, GUITARIST/LEAD VOCALIST SAYING, "To make a record vital and interesting, especially in rock music, you know it has to have that edge. And it has to be sort of almost anxious at certain points. And then there are other times it was really groovy and really flowing, so we jus
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- Location: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES
- Country: USA
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- Story Text: Bush returns to its roots on its fourth album, "Golden State, " made up of a dozen tracks, blending aggro guitars, relentless rhythms, and raw vocals. The band was forced to make a key last-minute song title change because of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Bush's fourth all-new studio recording and Atlantic Records debut, "Golden State" is the band's boldest, most combustible collection to date. The album contains a dozen tracks fit to burst with aggro guitars, pounding rhythms, and Gavin Rossdale's plaintive vocals.
With "Golden State," the British quartet has returned to its hard-edged roots with cuts like "Solutions," and the first single off the album, "The People That We Love."
Because of the September 11 attacks, the band made a last-minute song title change, renaming the track, "Speed Kills," to "The People That We Love," even though the song had nothing to do with terrorism.
Lead vocalist/guitarist Gavin Rossdale call the album, "a naked record." He says it's definitely a real rock record.
He says the songs speak for themselves...filled with songs that are very empowering and uplifting.
Bush came out of nowhere in 1994 to sell 9 million copies worldwide of its debut album, "Sixteen Stone." The band is now heralded as one of the few survivors from that era of rock music.
Rossdale formed Bush in London with drummer Robin Goodridge, bassist Dave Parsons and lead guitarist Nigel Pulsford, naming the group after the British capital's suburb of Shepherd's Bush. They struggled for awhile before signing with Los Angeles-based independent Trauma Records.
Their first album, "Sixteen Stone" shot up the U.S.
charts, fueled by constant touring and five hit singles, starting with "Everything Zen." Bush followed "Stone" up with 1999's "Science of Things," opened at no. 11 with 106,000 units sold.
"Science" ultimately sold about a million copies, a respectable figure at a time when guitar-driven rock was out of favor, replaced with more pop flavors. Still, the band felt their label, Trauma Records, had dropped the ball and it was time to jump to a major label, Atlantic Records and get a new manager, Irving Azoff.
"Golden State" debuted at no. 22 on the U.S. charts, with 55,000 units sold. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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