It's hard to believe it's has been 11 years since No Doubt released Rock Steady. The extensive touring in support of the album and the associated lifestyle eventually took its toll and the band decided to take a well earned break in 2004 to focus on family life, solo music projects, and alternative career paths. Or, in the case of front-woman Gwen Stefani, multitasking and doing all of the above and more. Various offspring, fashion lines, and better-best-forgotten solo albums later No Doubt are back with their sixth studio album Push & Shove (yes, sixth - they had two before Tragic Kingdom broke out of Anaheim and conquered the world in 1995, dontcha know). All notions of being out-of-touch were dispelled early on in the process - they've astutely let their global fanbase in on the record's gestation period, embracing the social media revolution which was non-existent from their formative years right through to their incredible diamond sales status era. Continuous Instagram snaps from the recording studio and YouTube video diaries are all well and good, but it's the big advance track that matters - lead single 'Settle Down' was debuted in mid-July, it was underwhelming to say the least, and hardly instilled great faith for what lay in wait with Push & Shove...
