Bathbomb free zone - Lush

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This is not a post about that shop in the high street that you can smell half a mile away, and you buy your sister bath bombs from for Xmas, but the shoegaze turned britpop band of the 90s.
Side note: there was a great both bomb related joke at the Edinburgh festival this year by comedian Ian Smith: 
"People who say bath bombs are relaxing have clearly never tried to carry one home in the rain." 
But I digress, Lush (the band!) was formed in London in 1987. The original line-up consisted of Miki Berenyi (vocals, guitar), Emma Anderson (vocals, guitar), Steve Rippon (bass guitar), and Chris Acland (drums). Phil King replaced Rippon in 1991. They were one of the first bands to be described with the "shoegazing" label.

In 1989, the band signed to 4AD Records and released their first recording, Scar, a six-track mini-album. Critical praise for Scar and a popular live show established Lush as one of the most written-about groups of the late 1980s/early 1990s UK indie scene.  Not long after, the British music press tagged them with the "shoegazing" label.
 My favourite of their albums though, and the one that caught my attention was 1996's "Lovelife".
  On Lovelife, the band moved away from their earlier dream pop and shoegazing style and embraced a more Britpop-oriented sound. 
Three songs were released as singles: "Single Girl",  "500 (Shake Baby Shake)", and "Ladykillers", this one in particular received a lot of airplay at the time, and was also included in several indie and Britpop compilations 
The three singles from this album all reached the top 30 positions. On release, Lovelife reached number eight on the UK Albums Chart.

The group reunited for a short time between 2015 and 2016 with Berenyi, Anderson, King and Justin Welch. They toured and recorded an EP of new material.
Other people will say that they were at their peak on their earlier two albums, but for me, "Lovelife" was their defining moment. 

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