Audio Mixer: Bob Rock.

Recording information: Kingston Sound, LA; Ocean Way Studios, LA; Plantation Studios, Maui, Hawaii.

Photographers: Mark Squires; Kevin Westenberg.

On his 2008 solo debut, WANDERLUST, former Bush/Institute frontman Gavin Rossdale presents a Bob Rock-produced set of songs that are generally more introspective and subdued than his work with those bands. Backing his signature raspy vocals with relatively gentle adult-alternative arrangements rather than distorted guitars, the British singer/guitarist is clearly no longer the tormented neo-grunge performer of Bush's 1994 breakthrough, SIXTEEN STONE, and is content to ponder subjects such as his family with pop-star wife Gwen Stefani (see the sensitive "Frontline"). While Stefani adds vocals to the melancholy "Drive," Garbage's Shirley Manson joins Rossdale on "The Trouble I'm In," a downbeat track that perfectly embodies WANDERLUST's atmospheric mood.