Album review: Bush – The Art Of Survival

Evolution equals survival. That’s a lesson Bush learned a few years back. When their seventh album, 2017’s Black And White Rainbows, found the English rockers’ distinctly American brand of alt.rock running on fumes, they rethought the formula and came up trumps on 2020’s The Kingdom. The Art Of Survival picks up where its predecessor left off, finding further applications for this sleeker, electronically charged variant. It’s precisely the album Bush needed to make, then, not to mention the one Bush fans needed. But will anyone else care to hear it?  There’s much to admire here, not least the equilibrium between Gavin Rossdale’s glacial vocal delivery and the hectic dynamism of the arrangements, particularly on opening single Heavy Is The Ocean and the hot-blooded Ident...

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