Lush

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shoegaze, dream pop, britpop, indie, 4ad… see all

(1988 – 1998)

Lush was a British shoegaze band, formed in 1988 by Steve Rippon, Emma Anderson, Meriel Barham, Chris Acland and Miki Berenyi. Barham left nearly immediately, eventually settling in fellow shoegazing band Pale Saints. Robin Guthrie helped the band sign to 4ad and released Scar, an EP, in 1989. Critical praise for Scar and a wildly popular live show established Lush as one of the best-selling bands in the new shoegazing genre of pop music. That year the EPs Mad Love, produced by Robin Guthrie, and Sweetness and Light, produced by Tim Friese-Greene of Talk Talk fame, followed.

In 1990 the LP Gala, which combined the material from their first three EPs, was released by Reprise in the United States, the first exposure of Lush in North America. Their first LP made up of completely new material was Spooky in 1992. Produced by Robin Guthrie, Spooky featured a sound very similar to Guthrie’s band Cocteau Twins, with walls of sound and a great deal of flange. Reviews were mixed and critics of the album hold that Guthrie’s production brought the sound away from the band’s original creative vision. Rippon left the band at this stage in order to concentrate on writing, though his book Cold Turkey Sandwich - a fictionalized chronicle of his time in touring - was rejected by publishers. He was replaced by Phil King. Also in 1992, Lush toured America as part of the Lollapalooza festival.

Split was released in 1994 and featured a harsher sound. Despite critical praise, the album sold poorly.

1	Ladykillers	316
2	For Love	205
3	Single Girl	171
4	Hypocrite	161
5	Nothing Natural	159
6	Monochrome	155
7	Lovelife	154
8	Sweetness and Light	147
9	Light From a Dead Star	146
10	Ciao!	145
11	De-Luxe	138
12	Thoughtforms	122
13	Desire Lines	119
14	Untogether	116
15	Stray	114

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rorokeating wrote:
Thursday morning

brilliant music

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tombom23 wrote:
Wednesday morning

they're some other band, i dunno actually what they don't show up on rym OR NOTHING

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pochomystique wrote:
Wednesday morning

A link to a group called 'We Like Our Music Soft'?? Pssh. Lush are fucking loud.

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pochomystique wrote:
Wednesday morning

What are those songs on the playlist? I am a big, big fan, have heard some unreleased tracks/early demos and never even heard of those titles before. Just the names alone sound very.. un-Lush.

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lliiiill wrote:
Tuesday evening

Gala is great.. damn, i can't get it through the stores and 4AD doesn't wanna reissue it

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Selenaru_Negrea wrote:
Tuesday afternoon

I don't really see Ladykillers as deserving its success... I should get Split or stick to Loveless.

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Selenaru_Negrea wrote:
Tuesday morning

Spooky isn't bad at all. Are Split and Gala better than this?

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amazingmikeyc wrote:
Sunday evening

I bought the best of Lush; They're quite a lot better than I remember! Cool. Remember when real, interesting people formed bands because they wanted to be in bands and not because they like wearing skinny jeans and going on T4?

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tombom23 wrote:
Saturday morning

not a bug - check all 4ad artists

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lliiiill wrote:
last month

haha, it's a stupid bug — there're no tracks' previews for LUSH on this page

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rumboon wrote:
last month

What's this Lush Life album?

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VashTheStamped wrote:
last month

Have to try them out sometime.

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mat35 wrote:
last month

I prefer Lush to Slowdive, JAMC and Ride, but MBV are just something special and Cocteau Twins would have to go down to a flip of a coin.

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ferngesteuert wrote:
last month

I LOVE untogether.

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Gregster1978 wrote:
last month

Dunno what this Derivation thing is but I like it! Happy accident. My fave 'real' Lush song is For Love. Genius.

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tombom23 wrote:
last month

yeah i know what you mean, but there's nothing wrong with safe sometimes y'know? btw which album?

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Hiresdes wrote:
last month

I just discovered this band, as I was trying to add to my collection of shoegaze albums...While I respect all of their fans, I found a lot of the songs to be too relatively safe for my liking, and I still prefer the likes of Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, and even the Cocteau Twins.

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PleasureVictim1 wrote:
last month

New interview with Phil... http://vonpipmusicalexpress.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/ace-of-bass-phil-king-interview/

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lagaloupette wrote:
last month

c'est quoi la musique d'ascenseur en écoute?

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eternalwanderer wrote:
last month

Check out: We Like Our Music Soft!

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