Interscope Records
2005
Distort Yourself
About This Album
It should come as no great surprise that Institute, Gavin Rossdale's first band since breaking up Bush, sounds a whole lot like Bush. Rossdale wasn't just the frontman, he was the songwriter and architect of their sound, an Englishman enthralled with American grunge who was at first taken for a musical carpetbagger, but as the '90s rolled on, it became apparent that he was one of the few post-grunge rockers to really, truly believe in this stuff. As all the American grungesters abandoned the sound, Rossdale stuck with it, sometimes bringing in fashionable electronic beats as he did on Bush's final album, 2001's Golden State, but pretty much sticking to the same sound that he developed on Sixteen Stone. Although he'd been away for about five years -- during which time such odious neo-grunge bands as Nickelback and Puddle of Mudd appeared, both proving that Bush, like their American commercial grunge counterparts Stone Temple Pilots, were dealt with far too harshly at the peak of their success -- Rossdale didn't change much in his time out of the spotlight, and in a way he benefits from not being in the glare of the spotlight, since Institute's debut album, Distort Yourself, feels fresher than the last Bush album.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,5,6 and 7)

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