Rating: 70
This is one of the few arbitrary ratings I've given this year. I'm torn between wanting to love this album because the critics are raving about it, and liking this album because it's just really pretty. (Note that a 70 from me is probably equivalent to most critics' 80, or 4 out of 5 stars.)The album consists of only 7 songs, but comes in at over an hour's playing time. There's no filler. The first 3 songs, and the last, are pretty much piano and vocal with some very subtle rhythm from bass and/or percussion. In between are three, up-tempo songs; the 5th, Snowed In At Wheeler Street, is a duet with Elton John.
It's all good, so take your pick. Click the song titles for a hyperlink to the songs: The mournful Lake Tahoe (about a woman's ghost that haunts the lake) or the up tempo Wild Man ("They call you an animal, the Kangchenjunga Demon, Wild Man, Metoh-Kangmi". Better known to most of us as the Yeti or Abominable Snowman.)
Surprisingly, for me anyway, this is my first Kate Bush album. She's been around for a long time. Heck, she's two years older than me! With help from David Gilmour (Pink Floyd guitarist) Kate Bush signed her first record deal at the age of 16, and released her fist album 3 years later, in 1978. She's released 9 more studio albums since.
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