Gavin Rossdale: Wanderlust review

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Gavin Rossdale — “WANDERlust” (Interscope): When his 2005, post-Bush band Institute failed so miserably, the now Mr. Gwen Stefani, Gavin Rossdale, must have been so scared that he ran off and immediately started writing “WANDERlust,” an oddly titled disc about being content that sounds a heck of a lot like an old Bush disc, which is a good thing for fans of, um, Bush.

Never really known for his music, Rossdale became an immediate sex symbol when the English band Bush first hit success on this side of the Atlantic with the Nirvanalite disc “Sixteen Stone,” which isn’t that bad a record, but rather a mediocre work with a few very good songs. But that really was the last of Rossdale’s very good songs, as subsequent Bush records got worse and worse until the group called it a day.

But this isn’t the Bush-like music of the early days; “WANDERlust” aims at the sappy ballads and middle-of-the-road dribble of the later years. This is clearly Rossdale’s attempt to grab the kind of success his wife got going solo. But Stefani made her move when No Doubt was still a household name, and Bush hasn’t had a real hit single in well over a decade, so Rossdale probably won’t succeed. But he’s trying here, trying desperately to make a hit single.

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