Razorblade Suitcase

Razorblade Suitcase
Studio album by
Bush
Released19 November 1996[1]
StudioSarm Hook End and Abbey Road Studios, London, England, U.K.
GenreGrunge[2][3]
Length61:43
Label
ProducerSteve Albini
Bush chronology
Sixteen Stone
(1994) 		Razorblade Suitcase
(1996) 		Deconstructed
(1997)
Singles from Razorblade Suitcase
  1. "Swallowed"
    Released: 15 October 1996
  2. "Greedy Fly"
    Released: 28 January 1997
  3. "Bonedriven"
    Released: 16 April 1997
  4. "Cold Contagious"
    Released: 20 December 1997

Razorblade Suitcase is the second studio album by English rock band Bush, released on 19 November 1996 by Trauma and Interscope Records. The follow-up to their 1994 debut Sixteen Stone, it was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London with engineer and producer Steve Albini. Its sound is more raw than that of its predecessor and has frequently been compared to Nirvana's In Utero (1993), which was also produced and engineered by Albini.[4][5] The album is widely regarded as being the last major "grunge" album of the 1990s.

Razorblade Suitcase debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200, selling 293,000 copies in its first week of sales in the United States.[6] To date, it remains the only Bush album to top the Billboard 200.[7] The twentieth anniversary of the album was marked with a reissue officially titled Razorblade Suitcase (In Addition) on 16 December 2016, including the remastered album and four rare bonus tracks: "Broken TV," "Old," "Sleeper" and "Bubbles."[8]

  1. ^ "Billboard". 16 November 1996.
  2. ^ Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian, eds. (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4 ed.). Simon & Schuster. p. 122. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Entertainment Weekly review was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ SPIN – Google Books. December 1996. Retrieved 6 May 2014.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference allmusic review was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference Jam! was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ "Bush – Chart history – Billboard". Billboard. Retrieved 6 May 2014.
  8. ^ Roffman, Michael (18 November 2016). "Bush share never-before-released Razorblade Suitcase track "Sleeper" – listen". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved 29 November 2016.