Artist: Lush
Genre(s):
Indie
ROck: Alternative
Pop
Rock
Discography:
Ciao! Best of Lush
Year: 2001
Tracks: 18
Lovelife
Year: 1996
Tracks: 12
Split
Year: 1994
Tracks: 12
Spooky
Year: 1992
Tracks: 12
Miscellaneous
Year: 1991
Tracks: 21
Gala
Year: 1990
Tracks: 15
Meshing dreamy, feedback-drenched guitars with airy, tricky melodies, Lush were one of the nigh spectacular shoegazing bands of the early '90s. Led by guitarists Miki Berenyi and Emma Anderson, the British band earned a craze following inside the British and American undergrounds with its showtime EPs, even the mathematical group ne'er quite attained the vital respectfulness given to its peers My Bloody Valentine and Ride. Even so, Lush lasted longer than whatever other of their generation (with the exclusion of the Boo Radleys), development knifelike pop skills as their career progressed. By the time of their last record album, 1996's Lovelife, they had reborn themselves into a mightiness crop up band with ambition pop overtones, which resulted in the sterling chart success of their calling. Their success was dealt a blow when drummer Chris Acland committed self-destruction in the fall of 1996, effectively delivery the band to an end.
Miki Berenyi, Emma Anderson, Chris Acland, Steve Rippon (bass), and Meriel Barham (guitar) formed Lush in 1988 in London, England. Prior to the group's geological formation, school friends Berenyi and Anderson had collaborated on a fanzine together, as good as played in a number of other bands severally. Anderson, world Health Organization had been operative as a DHSS clerical helper, had played bass with the Rover Girls, spell Berenyi had been a extremity of I-Goat, Fuhrer Five, and the Lillies. Berenyi's then-boyfriend, Acland had previous played with several other groups as well, including Panik, Infection, and A Touch of Hysteria. Barham left Lush presently later the band's formation to kind the Pale Saints, and the leftover members began playing around London, cursorily earning a number of fans, including Robin Guthrie of the Cocteau Twins. Guthrie helped the band secure a contract with 4AD Records, and they released their acclaimed debut EP, Scar, in 1989. Lush supported the EP with opening tours for Loop and the Darling Buds, and by 1990, they had calibrated to headlining tours of their have.
Passim 1990, the band's repute in the British music weightlift began to produce as they released the acclaimed EPs Mad Love and Redolence and Light, played high profile gigs like the Glastonbury Festival, and became favorites of the music weeklies' gossiper columns. Blowout, an album compilation their three EPs, became the band's showtime American release at the remainder of 1990. Lush exhausted nigh of 1991 recording their debut album, releasing the Black Spring EP in the outpouring. Rippon left the circle during the roger Sessions, and was replaced by Philip King, a former picture researcher for NME and a previous member of Felt, Servants, and Biff Bang Pow. Lush in conclusion released their delayed debut album, Spooky, in the spring of 1992. While the album sold easily, arrival the British Top Ten and topping the U.K. indie charts, it was criticized in the weightlift for Guthrie's heavy-handed production. The band supported the record album in America by appearance on the second Lollapalooza enlistment, just their aspiration bulge wasn't well-received by an audience athirst for metallic element. Lush released their second album, Split, in the summer of 1994 to interracial reviews. Rip was lost in the similitude waves of Brit-pop and American post-grunge, regular through the band's songwriting was more than pop-oriented than of all time.
After regrouping during 1995, Lush returned in early 1996 with Lovelife, an album that showcased a debt to the pop-single ideals of Brit-pop. The musical changeover paid off as "Undivided Girl" and "Ladykiller" became their two biggest murder singles, and the album became a British Top 20 hit; in America, it was their highest-charting album, even if it merely scraped the charts at 189. Lush had realised their encouraging tours and summer festival appearances when Chris Acland unexpectedly hanged himself in his parent's house on October 17, 1996. Devastated by his death, the left members of Lush went into a long stop of bereavement, eventually disbanding.
