Gwen Stefani – Bouquet (2024) [FLAC 24bit/48kHz]

Gwen Stefani – Bouquet (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 33:10 minutes | 424 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Interscope Records

Bouquet is the upcoming fifth studio album by American singer and songwriter Gwen Stefani. It is expected to be released on November 15, 2024, through Interscope Records. The album serves as her first release since 2017’s You Make It Feel Like Christmas and was preceded by two singles: “Somebody Else’s”, and “Swallow My Tears”. It also includes the duet “Purple Irises” with husband Blake Shelton, which was released in February.Both on her own and with No Doubt, Gwen Stefani has long been a cultural magpie, sometimes even drawing cries of appropriation as she has flaunted bindis, chola makeup, Harajuku gear, Native American headdress and her birthright SoCal skater-girl wardrobe. On the cover of her fifth solo album, Stefani wears a cowboy hat. And while she has wildly (and perhaps blindly) claimed Bouquet is not a country album—saying instead it’s influenced by 1970s Chicago and Steely Dan—if it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck… Spending time in husband Blake Shelton’s home state of Oklahoma has clearly rubbed off on the ultimate New Wave pop girl, now 55 years old. “Pretty” evokes ’90s Faith Hill, and “Somebody Else’s”—a brutal kiss-off, perhaps to her ex-husband Gavin Rossdale, with lines like “Every day with you is rock bottom” and “Leaving you saved me, my god”—features brawny heartland guitar alongside Stefani’s signature vocal hiccups and piercing power notes. And her decided non-twang is remarkably well-suited to the clear country rock of the title track, which tells the story of how she and Shelton met and fell in love as coaches on The Voice not long after each was “heartbroken” by divorce. “You bring the diamond, I bring the promise/ You bring the dogs, I’ll bring the boys,” she sings, nodding to her three sons. “I drive you crazy, you drive the truck.” It’s one of many songs that burnish the couple’s origin story. Stefani also loyally sticks to a garden theme, pollinating with floral metaphors and flowery language on the ballad “Empty Vase,” “Marigolds” (which could almost be countrified No Doubt song, although clearly missing the rich pop-funk bass of Tony Kanal) and “Late To Bloom”—a middle-aged bop that also hammers home another of the album’s metaphorical touchstones. “And now we’re driving in the truck/ Under a full strawberry moon/ Wish we could hit the brakes/ And stay forever” she sings, employing country music’s four-wheeled hero as a symbol of red-blooded security and to underscore the switcheroo from her high-gloss Beverly Hills life. But Stefani remains self-aware, insisting, “It’s not 1999, but this face is still mine” on “Purple Irises,” a duet with Shelton that just hints at Todd Rundgren’s brilliant “I Saw The Light.” Shelton, never known for his subtlety, does not hold back, absolutely belting his verses; but he pulls back on the chorus, letting Stefani take the driver’s seat of this pickup. – Shelly Ridenour

Tracklist:

1-1. Gwen Stefani – Somebody Else’s (03:44)
1-2. Gwen Stefani – Bouquet (03:25)
1-3. Gwen Stefani – Pretty (03:13)
1-4. Gwen Stefani – Empty Vase (02:58)
1-5. Gwen Stefani – Marigolds (02:42)
1-6. Gwen Stefani – Late To Bloom (03:26)
1-7. Gwen Stefani – Swallow My Tears (02:54)
1-8. Gwen Stefani – Reminders (03:18)
1-9. Gwen Stefani – All Your Fault (03:45)
1-10. Gwen Stefani – Purple Irises (03:40)

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