[.ca] Aerial

From Amazon.com:
It's often said that a musician's debut represents the culmination of a lifetime's worth of experiences, but their sophomore effort is usually derived from just the intervening year. By waiting 12 years between The Red Shoes and her new double CD, Aerial, Kate Bush has tried to regain that lifetime. It's a remarkably coherent recording, reflecting the unique world of sound and spirit Bush has inhabited since her debut. The first disc, subtitled A Sea of Honey, is a suite of personal reveries. It ranges from "King of the Mountain," a contemplation of unbridled celebrity and its isolation that references Elvis and Citizen Kane, to the piano-and-voice study "Mrs. Bartolozzi," an ode to household chores whose chorus is "Sloshy sloshy sloshy sloshy, get that dirty shirty clean." With its Depeche Mode-influenced synth pads, electro pulses, and lyric cadences, "King of the Mountain" is vintage Bush pop. Bu! t many of the songs attain more epic proportions, like the dynamic "Joanni," a hymn to Joan of Arc. It's the second disc--a suite called A Sky of Honey--on which Bush really comes into her own. Using metaphors of the turning of the day and the flight of birds, she orchestrates a meditation on the cycles of life. Musically expansive, she weaves her compositions out of birdsong, subtle orchestrations, and jazz trios, showing herself at her experimental best. Embracing her relatively new motherhood, as well as the death of her mother, Aerial is a deeply personal album, and a welcome return from one of pop music's true icons and vocal wonders. --John Diliberto More Kate Bush The Kick Inside Lionheart Never for Ever The Dreaming Hounds of Love The Sensual World

An original intimate record:
Kate Bush is unique and this record is a delight. It's original, has humor as well! May I suggest another artist who is involved a bit in the same way in her production and it's Marcome. Her new River of Soul is pretty tasty and colored. Her voice matured and the themes and arrangments are more solid. Another great singer songwriter, a very good vocalist as well.

Worth the wait:
This album was like being re-united with a long lost freind. The first time I heard it I would have given it 3 stars. It takes a while to really appreciate this album. Once you have grown to love it then it is one of those few albums that demands your complete attention. Switch the lights off, turn up the volume, let your imagination loose and enjoy the journey. If you like Kate Bush I just can't recommend this album highly enough. If you have never heard of her then you are taking a risk (but what's a few bucks here or there), people either love her music or hate it - but if you get hooked you will buy everything she has ever made and still want more.

first double album - forever genius:
Have been listening to Kate since 1978 with her first album at 19 yrs The Kick Inside. She puts to shame any other and all else in modern music where bubble gum Britneys and Ashleys and/or Lindsays ad nauseum (there seems to be an unlimited supply) offer to engage at their now similar age thru whelping about what they have learned in the fullness of their wisdom! Have all her albums and will always listen to her and lay next to her inspiration. Would have loved to see her live, but apparently she doesn't fly. Aerial is her first double album and more seemless a flow throughout from Skies to Seas....go with her enchantments and leave the rest behind. She realizes George Bernard Shaw's brilliant quote; "Youth, what a shame to waste it on the young."

I fell in love with Kate all over again!:
It's been over 20 years since I started listening to Kate Bush but I hadn't bought a Kate Bush album since The Sensual World so I was excited to see something new come out. This album doesn't disappoint...in fact "Sunset" just became my new favourite song.

Aerial-A long awaited re-baptism into the world and genius of Kate:
Not unlike many of Kate's albums, this one takes some time and repeated listening to truly appreciate its profound artistry. In fact, I agree that this is her MASTERPIECE. It is truly intoxicating. I hope this is not the last we hear of this gift from God. The tracks on Aerial touch senses you never realized were there and take you to places that only your imagination can go. Personal favorites are Nocturn, Aerial, How to Be Invisible, King of the Mountain, Somewhere Inbetween, Prologue, Sunset and Pi. After drinking it in over and over the one word I can think of to describe it is, indeed, "aerial". SM

• King of the Mountain
• Pi
• Bertie
• Mrs. Bartolozzi
• How to Be Invisible
• Joanni
• Coral Room
• Prelude
• Prologue
• Architect's Dream
• Painter's Link
• Sunset
• Aerial Tal
• Somewhere in Between
• Nocturn
• Aerial