After forming in 1988, seminal shoegaze band, Lush, spent the better part of the ’90s leading the genre along with contemporaries Ride, Slowdive, Moose, and Chapterhouse. After 1996’s Lovelife found the band some crossover success in the burgeoning Britpop scene, it suffered a devastating loss in the suicide of drummer Chris Acland, and Lush officially disbanded in 1998. Following two years in limbo after Acland’s death, frontwoman Miki Berenyi felt adrift. The loss was described as “a full on body blow,” and for more reasons than one, she felt like she could not go on with the band.
“Chris died, the band ended, and I needed a couple of years to just regroup,” says Berenyi, talking from her London home just a day before her current band, Piroshka, which she formed with her partner KJ “Moose” McKillop (formerly of the aforementioned band Moose), was to begin a short tour of the UK. “So I pissed about a bit doing not
