''Black and White Rainbows'' is the seventh studio album by British

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band

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, released on 10 March 2017, through Zuma Rock Records and

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. It is the follow up to the band's 2014 album, ''

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'', and is the third featuring the lineup of

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, Robin Goodridge,

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and Corey Britz. It is the last album to feature longtime drummer Robin Goodridge, the only member other than Rossdale who had played on every album dating back to their 1994 debut ''

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'' which launched the band's career. He was also the only longtime member to rejoin Bush after their hiatus from 2002 to 2010.

Release

Album

''Black and White Rainbows'' was released on 10 March 2017, through Zuma Rock Records. The album was released in the

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with the artist credited as "Bush with Gavin Rossdale" and had a sticker promoting ''

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'', which Rossdale was a coach on during the show's sixth series. A remastered deluxe edition of the album on 13 October 2017 with a new extended tracklisting including new songs "This is War" and "Alien Language" along with extended versions of " Mad Love" and "Peace-S".

Singles

"People at War" was released alongside a music video in June 2016, in partnership with the

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. The

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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.

Content

Musical style

In allusion to the style of ''Black and White Rainbows'', Henry Yates of ''

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'' detailed an " electro-tinged

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" sound "between U2 and

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". ''AllMusic'' remarked that Bush "managed to craft a collection of adult contemporary

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" with the record.

Critical reception

''Black and White Rainbows'' received mixed reviews from

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, 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

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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, ''

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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."

Track listing

All songs were written by

; "Lost in You" was co-written by Dave Stewart.

Deluxe Edition remaster

Personnel

Credits adapted from

Bush *

– lead vocals, rhythm guitar *

– lead guitar * Corey Britz – bass, backing vocals * Robin Goodridge – drums Technical personnel * John Ewing, Jr. –

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, mixing * Neil Krug –

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– mastering *

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–

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* Gavin Rossdale – mixing, producer

Charts

Release history

References

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