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September 16 1985
Kate Bush
Hounds of Love
Genre: Rock
5 out of 5
Highlights:
Running Up That Hill
Hounds of Love
The Big Sky
And Dream of Sheep
Under Ice
Jig of Life
Full confession: I’ve never heard this album. I am intimidated by Kate. I thought The Kick Inside was meh. But the follow up, Never For Ever was actually quite good. And then, The Kick Inside, which just knocked me out. I have been looking forward to this one but, even though I really liked those other two, I decided to wait until I reached Hounds of Love in this project to dive in.
Maybe this is an insult but…is this a Kate Bush version of a Peter Gabriel record sounds like?
I really don’t mean it as an insult. It’s fantastic.
It challenges but it also invites.
The true hero here is “Jig of Life”, a hypnotic meditation set against an irish jig that I was going to listen to again but before I had the chance to we had already moved on to “Hello Earth” and I became transfixed on its warped spaciness.
Kate knows more than I do about the nature of life and I am humbled by her.
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