On Bush's last album, 2022’s The Art Of Survival, frontman Gavin Rossdale turned his pen towards outside forces, with songs influenced by politically charged topics ranging from reproductive rights to climate change. I Beat Loneliness is a much more inward-looking album.
Some of the titles – Everyone Is Broken, Love Me Till The Pain Fades – read like they’ve been cribbed from a grunge/emo crossover handbook. But there’s an importance to being earnest, and Gavin imbues the songs with emotion and a little more nuance than the titles suggest.
