From this month's issue of Alternative Press Magazine Page 38.
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."


---John Kappes