Gavin Rossdale Has 18 Songs Written For New Bush Album

During a recent interview with May The Rock Be With You, Bush’s Gavin Rossdale offered an update on the band’s new album. The frontman says he currently has 18 songs written for the effort.

Rossdale said the following:

“I’ve just written 18 songs. And we start [in the studio] on Monday with a producer. [We’ll] rearrange — hopefully not too much — the stuff I’ve done. We choose the songs we’re gonna do. We either might use what I started, the tracks, or we might just try nixing them and doing it fresh. Each song will dictate that. But we go eight days [in the studio] before we come to Australia [for our tour with CHEAP TRICK and STONE TEMPLE PILOTS, then we do [several days] of rehearsal. And then when we come back from Australia, we’ve got a few days off and then we go back to finish it. It should be done by May.”

He also added the following about the musical direction, which he says is similar to “The Kingdom”:

“It’s all like that. I like that. So I’ve kept it in that vein. That was the launchpad. That was it. I was, like, ‘I’m off.’ I’ve got maybe two ballady, two softer songs, slower songs, but they’re weird.

I’ve got a studio in my house now and it’s been such an amazing time. You have the tools at your fingertips now to make songs and make music. It’s just staggering. It’s so much fun.”

[via Blabbermouth]