“If You're Not With Us You're Against Us” might be the closest thing resembling a Bush track on the album as it was much heavier and strayed away momentarily from the poppy feel. “This Is Happiness” for a second these sounded like Primus at the beginning but soon morphed into quite an interesting track full of ups and downs and very unpredictable but turned out to be one of my favorite tracks on the CD.
Sorry Gavin, but “Another Night In The Hills” was one of the worst songs I have heard all year. I hope the song was more of a satire about Paris Hilton over a music masterpiece. Thankfully “The Trouble I’m In” made up for the previous track with a nice duet featuring Shirley Mason because two sexy voices equal one great track.
I really want to say I like this album a lot and could compare it to past Bush albums but the music that I have heard is much more irregular and rather adult contemporary. Gavin Rossdale’s solo material is like listening to a whole new musician with no particular solid structure and should not be compared to the band he once fronted. At times some of the songs provide very little evidence that the lead singer was once in a multi-platinum selling rock band.
It is a nice and different approach though and I really do see this CD getting a lot of attention from the people who used to go to “Grunge-Fest 1994” to see Bush play as those once flannel wearing clove cigarette smoking kids are now adults, many with families of their own. The CD is toned down and simple and a hell of a lot better sounding than Gwen Stefani’s solo material. Let’s hope Gavin Rossdale decides to give it another try as I really think he can outdo this first appealing, yet not so gratifying, attempt.
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