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Emma Johnston

"A band reaching out to the listeners they know are already there": Bush toy with invention but ultimately lack ambition on I Beat Loneliness

Bush publicity photo.

Between new releases from Skunk Anansie, Garbage, Pulp and Suede, the (already tedious) live return of Oasis, and baggy jeans and plaid shirts making a pleasingly comfy comeback, the 90s are back with aplomb in 2025, much to the delight and slight age-related horror of those of us whose misspent youth traversed that decade.

So Bush should slot straight back in with I Beat Loneliness, their tenth album, and sixth since they re-formed in 2010. And yet, largely because they were always more successful in the US than their UK homeland, they remain on the outside of it all, their sound still tailored to the American radio stations that made them millionaires.

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