Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale says the band has completed work on their new album, “I Beat Loneliness.”
In a new interview, Rossdale talked about the album saying, “It’s funny because they do say that most people write one song over and over, and my theme that I’ve always dealt with is sort of people’s mental health and their feelings and kind of the landscape of the landmines of hurt that we all live through. Everybody has so much broken stuff that they just sort of put the face on, go out and deal with it. But everybody having these crazy triggers — you see that suicide rates are insane, suicides among the military, the ex-military, men three times more likely to commit suicide as women. It’s just people are hurting. And so my literal simple role in life, in that sort of Japanese concept of a vocation, is really writing songs about people and about feelings.”
He also talked about the album title explaining, “So ‘I Beat Loneliness’, it’s just probably the best title I’ve ever written because, of course, it’s self-fulfilling in its impossibility. Cause you can’t say you beat loneliness, ’cause it’s coming back the next day like a boomerang. So I just like that idea of that bravado. It’s strength. It’s not bravado. It’s strength in the face of adversity.”
