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RhettButler Their history is a unique one, if nothing else..
They showed up in the fallout of the post-Cobain scene and were immediately roasted for being Nirvana knockoffs, but sold shitloads of their first two albums. By the time their third album showed up, they were on their way out and dabbling in the electronica fad of the time. Their fourth album was a back-to-basics hail mary that landed with a thud and the band predictably split up.
Then Gavin shows up with the drummer years later and forms a new band that essentially sounds just like Bush did at the end of their first run. That album goes nowhere and he splits up the band again.
Then he shows up years later and releases a solo album that sounds nothing like his previous material and is an obvious play for mainstream contemporary rock radio. It actually worked, too; I remember that one single from it scaled the Billboard 100 chart for awhile.
Then he reforms Bush with 3/4 of the Institute lineup and again changes his sound to glossed up radio rock. The Sea of Memories is strong in the first half and then limps out with filler galore from the halfway point on.
Then he puts out Man On The Run and it's obvious he's just fawning for mainstream radio play. It's like listening to a completely different band than the first Bush era, from the sound to the songwriting. This new album looks and sounds like we'll be getting Man On The Run Some More..
I almost want to go see them live sometime, just to see how they play the newer stuff in comparison to the older classic 90s hits. I can't even imagine how jarring that might sound in person