Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love
Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love
One of my favourite albums of all time.
The perfect pop of Side 1. The dreamy experimentalism of Side 2. Honestly, it’s The Ninth Wave that truly makes this album. It feels like sinking deeper and deeper into a sea of dreams. There’s something magical about it, oceans, dreams, death, space. All that’s deep, dark, and unknowable.
In this suite of songs Kate Bush’s dream finds her drowning in a frigid river, haunting her lover as a ghost, and eventually orbiting the Earth. You can sort of piece together a connected story from these songs, but it’s never a simple A to B. It is a dream after all.
All songs are highlights. I couldn’t omit any of them. It’s perfect.
Favourites: Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) • The Big Sky • Cloudbusting • Watching You Without Me
Other Highlights: Hounds Of Love • Mother Stands For Comfort • And Dream Of Sheep • Under Ice • Waking The Witch • Jig Of Life • Hello Earth • Morning Fog
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