utterly unique.

experiments that dont always work, but one of the most adventurous artists ever.

small doses, small doses

BABOOSHKA AI YI

and that clip certainly made people concentrate on the music, rach....phwaor.

you know, that double album she put out a couple of years ago was pretty good too

aerial. end of 2005. beautiful.

what's the song with the video with the cloud busting? i end up in tears at that clip

is not bad is it monty?

i don't know littlerach but could it be "cloudbusting"?!

er, 'cloudbusting'. with donald sutherland as the mad scientist father?

i knew that

i'm a fan of her earlier work

just found an international kate bush fans site that has this awfully well written review on it....(which they never asked for...)

It's easy to trot out the typical words 'enigmatic', 'unique'. But with Kate Bush, they almost understate her status. Not many artists would take a decade between albums and still have it welcomed with such anticipation.

And what she delivers after this hiatus of life changes- the birth of her son and death of her mother obviously pivotal events- is a Kate Bush album; nothing more or less. Musical beds are largely built on layers of synths that some younger pretenders might consider a little old-fashioned. Her voice is still that thing of wonder which can soar, though maybe not as hysterically as the precocious 19 year old who offered that psycho-analytic dissection (with eccentric dancing) of Wuthering Heights. It's leavened now with a conversational lower register, with a couple of decades more life colouring it. It can still move you: in a nice twist on singing the phone book, in the midst of Pi's musing on a mathematician's obsession, she starts reciting the decimal places of the equation, and somehow imbues the numbers with real longing and emotion.

As that suggests, her worldview and lyrical concerns cover everything from cerebral to historical, from mundane to eccentric. Joanni has Joan Of Arc's sparkling armour inspiring rockstar-like devotion. Meantime, Mrs Bartolozzi imagines love scenes in her washing machine's spin cycle.

The Sky of Honey second disc centres on a theme of a twilight to dawn, probably see from her own window. Birds fly home and outward, a painter (as voiced by Rolf Harris no less...) sees his day's work marred by rain, but then finds something new in the streaks.

But overall Bush's priorities have changed, And while some mothers will write nursery rhymes of love to their sons, Bertie now has his mother's affection in song, but it's more medieval madrigal than Hi-5. Aerial is a portrait of a woman- a woman continuing to confound and delight us.

you wrote it didn't you

I really like the first three albums (The Kick Inside, Lionheart and Never Forever). After that she started doing the production herself, and I'm not quite as fond of it. I still haven't heard Aerial.
I know a few of guys who are mainly into metal who like her music as well.

jeeeez rach, you reckon?

y'all should check out Aerial if you haven't heard it already.

It's a beautiful surprise of a record.

So did you write it monty?

you shouldn't be called montyclift, you should be called grumpelstiltskin

guilty, shy.

was looking for when it came out, and found this list of reviews. including mine. they could have asked...

hey rach, pot. kettle. black.

xx

this vid fed such fantasies in me as a child. prob'ly slightly different from you blokes but all in all it's just pretty damn sexy really innit?

from memory 'babooshka' ruled my world about age 6

denial, I think I have either dated you or one of your brethren.

Oh... shit

It's okay, you know. I kinda get it. She is a god amongst ordinary mortals.

I'm looking forward to this...how good would it be if she decided it was time to do live shows again too...she would be on that shortlist of tours I'd love to see along with Tom Waits.

Me too. They just beat Scott Walker, Harriet Wheeler and Mary Margaret O'Hara for my most wanted and least likely to see live list. By the way, here, thanks to HEB, is the artwork for this forthcoming snow-based album:

How exciting!

Roll on November 21!!!

Listening to a bunch of KB stuff spanning the last 30 years (which is making this shithouse week less miserable) and gettin' excited about a newie

Ooooohhhh.....yeah! I'm pretty keen to hear it. Gosh I hope she gets an urge to tour. It's been too long...

She's only ever toured once right?

And that was to France I believe and that was it??

Something like 6 shows all up....

check out 'Under the Ivy' Kate Bush biography by Graeme Thomson..
It's a delicious read, I loved it..

A note about fur and photographs

From Kate...

Hi there,
We have recently taken some photos and I just want to pre-empt any concerns there might be as I'm sure most of you will feel the same way as I do about wearing real fur. All the fur in these photos is synthetic.
Best wishes,
Kate

check out 'Under the Ivy' Kate Bush biography by Graeme Thomson..
It's a delicious read, I loved it..

Oh I must grab a copy - I just finished reading a really crappy Rob Jovanovic biography of her but then I realised afterwards that I read a really crappy Iggy Pop biography by the same author a few years ago (not the amazing 'Open Up and Bleed' one that came out a few years later) and realised that he's obviously just a really crappy biographer.

Felt like it told me nothing about her - I'll definitely look up the biography you recommended firebird - cheers!

And Lax I love that photo of her - got me a fake fur hat very similar to that to wear up on the Great Wall later on this week as I'm told it will be cold as fuck up there. Maybe I should go for a tribute pic while I'm at it??

I didn't post that picture but it is great hey...

whoops!

That''ll teach me to not take notice of the details!!

red faced

You can stream the new album here

You can stream the new album here

Yes!

Awesome

Listening to it now. Very reflective & soothing. Her voice has aged a bit which is disappointing for those of us stuck in the dark ages (but I'm getting used to the change in her tone).

I'll have a burle when I get home tonight.

This is very good news, thanks Gnome!

I've been listening to this quite a bit this week, and yeah, it's great, I esp. love the first track, Snowflake, KB's spoken accent, the sentiment, etc... AMAZING ARTIST...

Yeah, it really is an incredible record. I love how she gets Elton John to sing so low he's barely recognisable. Could possibly do without Stephen Fry saying those made up words for snow, but that's nitpicking really.