“One more summer / one more weekend / I’m your lover / You’re my weakenss,” Stefani pleads amid pounding drums from Adrian Young. One More Summer – With an opening guitar riff worthy of New Order, No Doubt channels a different side of its longtime love of the 80s on this quasi-breakup anthem. Musical proof that Stefani is just as surprised to look as good as she does at 42 (!) as the rest of us.ģ. Looking Hot – Let the party begin! “Go ahead and look at me / ‘Cuz that’s what I want,” Stefani sings at the beginning of this dance-rock banger, a tongue-in-cheek ode to being a well-preserved frontwoman heading back on the road. “Looking Hot,” for example, is a guitar-heavy rave-up in the style of 2001’s “Hella Good,” but with a surprise Jamaican horn breakdown straight out of “Spiderwebs.” Then there’s “Undone,” the closest No Doubt has come to a reaching-for-the-rafters power ballad since “Don’t Speak.”Ģ. Though the reception has been mixed for dancehall-inflected lead single “Settle Down,” there are singles to spare on “Push and Shove,” many of which rival and occasionally harken back to their biggest hits. Largely unconcerned with modern radio trends - save for a semi-dubstep chorus on the Major Lazer-assisted title track - “Push and Shove” is a celebration of No Doubt’s love for all things 80s pop and the Southern California ska scene. It’s been 11 years since No Doubt‘s last studio album, “Rock Steady,” and 17 since “Tragic Kingdom” produced hits “Just A Girl,” “Spiderwebs” and “Don’t Speak.” Listening to “Push And Shove,” the group’s fifth studio album, and it’s often difficult to tell where the time went.

Push and shove by cl stone