Black and White Rainbows | ||||
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Studio album by Bush | ||||
Released | 10 March 2017 | |||
Genre | Alternative rock, post-grunge | |||
Length | 57:42 | |||
Label | Zuma Rock | |||
Producer | Bob Rock, Gavin Rossdale | |||
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Singles from Black and White Rainbows | ||||
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 49/100 |
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AllMusic | |
Classic Rock Magazine | |
Daily Mail | |
Drowned in Sound | 3/10 |
The Guardian |
Black and White Rainbows is the seventh studio album by British alternative rock band Bush, released on 10 March 2017, through Zuma Rock Records. It is the follow up to the band's 2014 album, Man on the Run, and is the third featuring its current lineup of Gavin Rossdale, Robin Goodridge, Chris Traynor and Corey Britz, which formed in 2010 after the original lineup disbanded in 2002.
Black and White Rainbows was released on 10 March 2017, through Zuma Rock Records. The album was released in the United Kingdom with the artist credited as Bush with Gavin Rossdale and had a sticker promoting The Voice in which Rossdale is a coach on the show's sixth series.
The lead single from the album, "Mad Love", was released on 6 February 2017.
"Lost In You" was the second song released from the album, on 24 February 2017.
"The Beat of Your Heart" was the third song released from the album, on 3 March 2017.
Black and White Rainbows received mixed reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 49 based on 4 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews."
Neil Z. Yeung of AllMusic rated the album three out of five stars, calls it "an interesting piece of the Bush discography", and states that it "hints at a late-era trajectory shift and a reinvigorated spirit for Rossdale and company." In a two out of five star review, The Guardian's Gwilym Mumford claims: "Album number seven sands down what little edge the band once had and buffs their sound to a banal, stadium-rock sheen."
All songs written by Gavin Rossdale; 'Lost in You' co-written by Dave Stewart
Credits adapted from AllMusic