1. Instead of playing up the aspects of [Kate] Bush’s persona that scream out fantasy warrior goddess — her dazzlingly high voice, the emotionalism in her singing, the synth-heavy, rhythmic arrangements partially designed to complement dance moves evocative of Martha Graham — [Theo] Bleckmann picks up these texts as if he’d found them with the author line erased.

    —  Ann Powers and Patrick Jarenwattananon on the gender politics, musical artiness, vocal diction and the lyrics of jazz singer Theo Bleckmann’s Hello Earth! The Music of Kate Bush.

  2. Kate Bush’s new video for “Lake Tahoe” uses shadow puppetry to weave a dreamlike tale of an old dog and his owner.

  3. Here are 50 words for Kate Bush’s new album, 50 Words for Snow:

Powdery  fantasia. Contemplative. Winter matins. Playful. Opium reverie.  Grounded. Ghost story. Sensual. Artistic recalibration. Unhurried.  Drummer’s holiday. Quiet. Ode to the white keys. Imaginative.  Exploration of the lower register. Floating. Mother-son duet. Solitary.  Snowed-in erotica. Collaborative. Joni Mitchell answer record. Inimitable. Supernatural space odyssey.  What we’d expect from Kate Bush.
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    Here are 50 words for Kate Bush’s new album, 50 Words for Snow:

    Powdery fantasia. Contemplative. Winter matins. Playful. Opium reverie. Grounded. Ghost story. Sensual. Artistic recalibration. Unhurried. Drummer’s holiday. Quiet. Ode to the white keys. Imaginative. Exploration of the lower register. Floating. Mother-son duet. Solitary. Snowed-in erotica. Collaborative. Joni Mitchell answer record. Inimitable. Supernatural space odyssey. What we’d expect from Kate Bush.

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  4. Kate Bush, “Wild Man”

  5. What’s interesting to me now is not that Bush never had a Top 10 U.S. hit (she did make it into the Top 40 in 1985, with “Running Up That Hill”), but that her influence so strongly pervades today’s indie pop.

    — Ann Powers from One More Reason Americans Don’t Care About Kate Bush