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November 2005
Mixed Reviews
For Kate Bush Comeback
Aerial,
Kate Bush's first album for 12 years, has
received a mixture of rave reviews and
qualified praise from the national
press.
"Aerial
is literally incomparable," wrote Alexis
Patridis in his five-star review in the
Guardian. "It is filled with things only
Kate Bush would do."
Kate
Bush's absence has helped bring everything
that makes her so special into sharper
focus," said the Mirror.
The
Mail, however, called it "fitfully
brilliant but mostly baffling".
Aerial,
said Adrian Thrills, "confirms her
position as one of music's true
mavericks".
However,
he continues, "its more indulgent moments
also suggest that the woman who gave us
Wuthering Heights in 1978 is now a long
way off the pulse of modern
pop".
Petridis,
however, suggests that it is precisely
Bush's indulgences that make her
remarkable.
"Daring
to walk the line between the sublime and
the demented is the point of Kate Bush's
oeuvre. On Aerial she achieves far, far
more of the former than the
latter."
"That
voice - still strong and radiant, soaring
and swooping unlike any other - melts the
heart," said the Daily Mirror's Gavin
Martin.
The
Mail's Thrills suggested her lyrics "often
sound like the work of someone who needs
to get out a bit more".
The BBC
News website's Darren Waters gave Aerial
an unqualified thumbs-up a week
ago.
"All of
the songs have a swirling, almost
uncontrolled creativity as if Bush has had
these songs bottled up for more than a
decade," he wrote. "Aerial stands
alongside The Hounds of Love and The Kick
Inside as her finest work."
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