Kate Bush is back!
There have been rumours of a new Kate Bush album for about 12 years but as time went by it was generally regarded as a myth - well, it looks like it’s true, the new album, Aerial, will be released later this month. Which is a double-edged sword because it could go either way: ruin the memory or be an awesome life-enhancing milestone. Thankfully, due to the woeful state of current ‘culture’ the second option is almost a given.
I met Kate once when I was about 15, she seemed very small and elfin and not much older than me but I digress. I’ve always loved her music, I first got into it because of the Gurdjieff references and for a long time I viewed her as saying something very profound about the Work through her lyrics but it seems that she really doesn’t have much of an interest at all. Weird how we project our own ideas onto music and extrapolate things about the artist that are very far from the reality - might make a good post someday but on....
There’s something odd about the album cover too (see above). It seems that the cover contains a coded message depicted in the soundwave image there. Apparently it is a ‘visual representation of spoken, or sung words over music? and sound’ analysts and fans alike have been agonisingly attempting to work out the message. The current favourites are wildly different.
The album is a double with one cd being ‘Kate songs’ and the other a ‘concept album’ (uh-oh) which may or may not be one continuous song. Apparently the single King of the Mountain is available for download on the net somewhere for free but I haven’t been able to find it - if anyone has a link let me know.
Another article in the Scotsman has more info and intriguingly it claims that EMI execs are very excited about the album and that it may be a career peak and a masterpiece. We shall see - can’t wait....and how come all these people have heard it already?
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