Kate Bush

That cover seriously needs to go away forever.

The title is stupid too.

I love Kate Bush!

http://www.cross-stitch-corner.co.uk/ekmps/shops/brendahickling/images/a-kiss-for-snowman-1102-p.jpg

well this album art won't convert any of the 'Kate's artwork sucks' mob from upthread.

This will be a treat in winter, unless it's a grave disappointment. I'm optimistic though.

Two albums in one year from KB can only mean she's getting everything out before the 2012 apocalypse.

For many years, Stewart Avon Arnold has enjoyed intense conversations with Bush about a range of spiritual and philosophical matters. "We talk about different philosophies on the phone for hours," says Arnold. "She mentions karma a lot, and reincarnation, and witchcraft and paganism and Buddhism. We always end up in these conversations about life in general and spiritual life in particular. Both of us have a fascination about spiritual life; we used to question each other and we still do. She'll phone me and say, 'What do you think about this, Stewart?' It always comes down to the spiritual questions in life, Man's place on the planet and what we're doing to it. The other thing that I talk about with Kate is The End of Days. Not Revelation, because neither of us believe in the Bible as such, but in terms of what Nostradamus was saying about 2012. The Hopi Indians, too. We're in for a global meltdown of some kind, the planet will change drastically in the next 10, 15 years. That's something Kate and I talk about quite a lot."

She mentions karma a lot

:/

Yeah, idek. That's from the Under the Ivy bio.

I would've lived on perfectly fine without knowing that tbh

Then why didn't she contribute ANY songs to the 2012 soundtrack?

Filter did.

I would've lived on perfectly fine without knowing that tbh

― Vision Kreayshawn Newsun (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, September 12, 2011 5:16 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark

yes this news has shattered my image of kate bush as a level-headed empirical sort

lol fair play

Stephen Fry did some spoken word on this new album. Weird.

That's on the extra secret track, "General Ignorance"

'50 words for snow' is just the sort of boring subject I can imagine him jibbering on about tbh.

I'm sure he's already done a 50 point penalty for someone saying there were 50 words for snow in the Eskimo languge.

Although, looking at Wiki, it seems it's not exactly a fallacy as such: There's certainly a lot of words for Rain in the eng lang.

You see I'm preemptively bored of his appearance already.

Rolf Harris was successfully recontextualised though, so you never know.

Rolf has always been gangsta

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/arts/sites/rolf-harris/images/rolf-on-art-2001_01_446.jpg
"Can you tell what it is yet, muthafukaz?"

http://www.barrylou.com/art/favoriteMusic/rolfHarris.jpg

"Yeah, this album is dedicated to all the teachers that told me
I'd never amount to nothin', to all the people that lived in the bush
I was hustlin' in front of that called the police on
me when I was just tryin' to make some money to feed my daughters,
and all the niggaz in the struggle, you know what I'm sayin cobber'?

only just listening to Director's Cut, the "Deeper Understanding" rework is absolutely brilliant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzqF_gBpS84

Don't think the video ever got posted

i see Robbie Coltrane's as good an actor as ever

Is the Deeper Understanding rework the one with the robot voice? I thought I was the only person in the world who liked that.

no i looked upthread, there's you, me and at least one other guy

made me want a whole album of autotuned Kate Bush tbh, but i think i might just be trolling

God, I hope you are NV!

Can't stand that autotune. She damn well steer clear of that on the new album... :-/

But what do we expect? Big changes, like from Never for Ever to The Dreaming or just a continuation of the sensual, laid back and smooth sound of Aerial and Director's Cut? It has been stated that the new one has been recorded at the same time as Director's Cut. Also, the tracks on the new one seem fairly long. All music, or minutes upon minutes of falling snow and the crunchy sound of people walking in it? I have to admit I'm a bit fearful.

i'm the other guy.
isn't the autotuned voice her son?

It's an old-fashioned vocoder rather than autotune, right?

I don't know what to expect Sebastian, but the prospect of 7 songs in 65 minutes makes me highly anticipate it!

More or less than the Lou Reed/Metallica? Because that is the gold standard of anticipation.

Tough one, but more.

i am completely down with minutes upon minutes of falling snow and the crunchy sound of people walking in it.

Kate already went ambient with the new version of This Woman's Work, so yeah, using the sound of snow as main musical texture could be the next logical step.

for me, kate bush has always been about challenging my aesthetics, but god damn that cover..

It's not too big a change from what I though was a pretty boring one for Aerial

Never liked Kate Bush album-art, honestly (but I adore her despite)... think I actually posted about it upthread.

I was the other other guy who likes "Deeper Understanding". Very much looking forward to this new one.

New single is pretty interested and bodes well for the album after disappointment of Director's Cut. Sounds fairly Dreaming era arrangement wise. Sad to hear her voice is slightly diminishing in it's power nowadays though.

I missed the premier on BBC Radio2, is that where you heard it? I'm stoked!

Someone posted it for streaming here: http://breakingillusions.tumblr.com/post/11268597787/wild-man-kate-bush-album-version-you-are

Not for me, I'm sad to say.

http://consequenceofsound.net/2011/10/check-out-kate-bush-wild-man/

oops xp

Thanks guys!

Chorus sounds kinda Steely Dan

I really like it, thanks.

Hmmm... It's good, but I'm not mad on the chorus.

It's got a bit of a Bowie-vibe overall, no?

Her voice has definitely waned a bit, she sounds more like Patti Smith.

I'm very glad to hear form her again after DC which was a disaster imho, so it's good to have her back, and like Jamie said, bodes well for the album.