You Bushies rejoice. I read an article last night about Kate releasing a new album in a few short months. Check EW.com.

funny thing is, i can totally remember listening to "the red shoes" for the first time, and being equally in love with it and annoyed by it. some of the songs were just plain goofy, but when she got it right, she got it right. i can't wait to see what twelve-plus years of holding off will produce.

I am really curious about this album....It must be a great one...she had 11 years to create a legendary album!!

Lennon said:

Yeah, kinda. She scrapped a batch of songs that she didn't much like in the mid 90's then held off for a while. Word has it that she started this one in late '99 so it's a good four or five years work. Apparantly the last recording session was in October 2003. Goodness knows what she's been doing in the last year. If it's taken twelve months to mix the album then it could take another twelve to finalize the track listing and cover art.

Anxiety said:

There's goofy stuff on all her albums, man.

Cloudbuster said:

well, yeah.

Lennon said:

Dunno if it will be legendary, but I share your curiosity about it! I'll definitely be picking this one up first time I see it!

And I thought Peter Gabriel went a long time between albums ("Us" was released in 1992; "Up" in 2002)!! "We're intending to release in September - you see I never specify the year." http://homepages.tesco.ne...pye/up.htm

I'll believe it when I have a copy of her cd in my hand.

Rumours of a March release were on the internet even before Kate gave us her Christmas Message and confirmed that there will be a new album next year.
Nothing is confirmed by EMI yet though.

Anxiety said:

i often wonder why the hate for red shoes...my first kate album was red shoes and i sorta worked backwards with her catalog....i find it just as compelling and quirky as the rest of the stuff.....yet her longtime fans seem to really dislike red shoes.....i wonder if im looking at old school kate fans like new school prince fans who love NPS look at us...

ahhhhh!!!!!

A Kate Bush Return Imminent?




It's been 11 years since the last studio album The Red Shoes, but Kate Bush is apparently still working on the followup. In the latest news related to her current work, the Toronto Sun asked Bush's close friend Peter Gabriel about her. "Kate had a son and lost her mom and I think that kept her (occupied). I spoke to her quite recently in fact and she's just about finished on a new record. It is exciting." Peter Gabriel incorporated Kate Bush's vocals on "Don't Give Up", which is featured in his new DVD release Play. In a comparison with Peter Gabriel's own recent 10 year gap between albums, "She pointed out (she takes) even longer than I take."

Rumors about the album in process have leaked out gradually over the past 2 years. Among the musicians who are expected to be included in the album are drummer Stuart Elliott, jazz percussionist Peter Erskine and Chris Hall on the accordion. The London Metropolitan Orchestra also recorded with Bush at London's Abbey Road studios in October 2003. Kate Bush performed live publicly for the first time in 15 years in 2002 singing Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" as a guest at Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour's Royal Festival Hall Concert.

Kate Bush recorded some of the most sensual and daring Pop music of the late 70's and 80's. Such classics as "Wuthering Heights" and "Babooshka" were massive hit singles at home in England. In 1985 she broke through in the U.S. with the album Hounds Of Love and the single "Running Up That Hill" which reached the Pop Top 30 and the Dance Top 20 in the U.S. The following year she was featured on "Don't Give Up", a powerful duet with Peter Gabriel included on his breakthrough So album. The British music magazine Q listed "Wuthering Heights" as one of the 20 singles that changed the world in the 70's and Hounds Of Love as one of the top 25 Best British albums ever, the only female thus honored.

I'm REALLY looking forward to this. Can't wait to hear what it's like.

sosgemini said:

I like it. Much better than folk give it credit for.

What´s it called? "Chinese Democracy"?