re: kate bush

If I wait till I fully absorb "Aerial," this list will probably be  
discussing Jane's new CD, however many years from now that emerges. So  without being 
able to explain or discuss very well, I will simply say I'm  loving it, 
immeasurably and incomprehensibly. I'm loving it partially because  I'm not really 
sure why I'm loving it. I'm loving it because this sounds so  unexpectedly like 
*Kate Bush* for cryin' out loud, and for that I'm really  really grateful. 
(For the record, I didn't think Red Shoes really sounded like  her, somehow. 
Parts of Sensual World too. Although "Love and Anger" remains  astonishing. But I 
digress.) And when I say it sounds like Kate Bush, I don't  mean she's just 
recycling herself, by any means. It's just such a treat to hear  her sound so 
much like herself. And in so saying I'm going all the way back. I  know lots of 
people seem to more or less only like "The Dreaming" (for me,  "Hounds of 
Love" is the peak, but to each his own) and don't seem to care much  for the 
albums in either direction from there. For me however one of the really  great 
things about "Aerial" is how it sounds like the same woman who sang all  those 
early songs, but now, yes, grown older, and with a child, and with a  deeper 
richer perspective on the world. (And by the way I had heard she'd  written a song 
for her son named after her son and I initially thought "Oh no!"  but the 
song strikes me as completely charming and beguiling, not unlike, I  don't know, 
maybe "The Man With The Child In His Eyes," or some such oldie-- not  because 
it sounds like it but just something in the underlying spirit). (Though  good 
old Bertie himself may not find it so charming in another five or  six years, 
I'm guessing.)
 
One thought that has occurred to me as I keep hitting the repeat button  (but 
two CDs! it takes a long time to learn..) is that if Jane should ever  
release an album that's as Jane-like as this one is Kate-like, many of us  on this 
list will probably transcend to the next dimension through the sheer  force of 
crazy-happy vibrations. And actually come to think of it there are a  couple 
of songs on "Aerial" that sound almost sort of a little Jane-like, don't  you 
think? On the second disc in particular, complete with some of that almost  Tim 
Ray-ish piano.
 
 
Jeremy