THE music of Kate Bush inhabits a time and space of its own which renders the 12 years since her last album, The Red Shoes, almost completely irrelevant.
Aerial is both as brilliantly maddening as it is gloriously stunning. Who else could get away with a song about laundry or a jug? She makes an old-fashioned double album and arranges the work with classical precision, borrowing from Eastern and Latin musical sources as well as from more familiar musical palettes.
The finely executed Pi is a plaintive paean to a mathematician; Bertie is a baroque love song to her son; Joanni celebrates Joan of Arc as the superb King of the Mountain does Elvis.
For me, the second disc is the most successful - in spite of the Rolf Harris cameo.
Nick Churchill
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