Bush singer Gavin Rossdale was recently interviewed by Voice Of America’s (VOA) “Border Crossings” and confirmed that the band is done work on the follow-up to 2022’s “The Art Of Survival” album. They’re calling the new album “I Beat Loneliness” and you should expect a ’25 release! As to why they called the album that? Rossdale said, “Because I think that everyone is struggling the whole time. It’s funny because when I reflect on the career that I’ve had and the songs that I’ve written, they do say that most people write one song over and over, and my theme that I’ve always dealt with is sort of people’s mental health and their feelings and kind of the landscape of the landmines of hurt that we all live through. Everybody has so much broken stuff that they just sort of put the face on, go out and deal with it. But everybody having these crazy triggers — you see that suicide rates are insane, suicides among the military, the ex-military, men three times more likely to commit suicide as women. It’s just people are hurting. And so my literal simple role in life, in that sort of Japanese concept of a vocation, is really writing songs about people and about feelings. And it’s funny because when I began, it wasn’t like that. You could just complain in songs, but I always wanted to have this sort of sense of hope, this sense of help and support and close community and people and love and friendship and kindness. And so I’ve written like that.”
Rossdale added, “So ‘I Beat Loneliness’, it’s just probably the best title I’ve ever written because, of course, it’s self-fulfilling in its impossibility. Cause you can’t say you beat loneliness, ’cause if you say you beat loneliness, it means that you’re a really melancholic person who beat loneliness for about 20 minutes, and it’s coming back the next day like a boomerang. So I just like that idea of that bravado. It’s strength. It’s not bravado. It’s strength in the face of adversity.”
Bush has sold over 24 million albums, has over one billion streams and several #1 songs. The band — made up of Rossdale, Chris Traynor (guitar), Corey Britz (bass) and Nik Hughes (drums) – seem to get bigger and bigger as the years roll on. “Loaded: The Greatest Hits 1994-2023” (Round Hill Records), their first greatest-hits collection, is 21 tracks spanning nearly 30 years — from their breakthrough hit “Everything’s Zen” to the aforementioned “Nowhere To Go But Everywhere”.
There goes another year – we had a blast – we are so grateful to do what we love – its been an amazing year for @bush – this next year promises so much – lots of shows – lots of countries – the new record #I BEAT LONELINESS – fam are strong and healthy. pic.twitter.com/0HvBO0CtnD
— GAVIN ROSSDALE (@GavinRossdale) December 31, 2024
As you know, Bush broke up in 2002 and reformed in 2010. They’ve since since released five albums: “The Sea of Memories” (2011),”Man On The Run” (2014),”Black And White Rainbows” (2017),”The Kingdom” (2020) and the aforementioned “The Art Of Survival”.
Where do you put Bush in the Top 100 bands of the 90s? Gotta be Top 20, right?
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