Kate Bush ‘The Sensual World’ - Classic Album Sundays Podcast

By the middle of the 1980s Kate Bush had reached the apex of her career with Hounds of Love . The album featured the most powerful and intriguing songs of her discography thus far, demonstrating just how incredible her sonic storytelling had become. Resisting the frenetic pace of a typical major label release schedule, Bush would spend another four years crafting her followup, with only sporadic singles and collaborations bridging the commercial gap. She found inspiration in the literary world again, scouring the pages of James Joyce’s landmark 1920s novel Ulysses to find Molly Bloom’s closing monologue, in which the character steps from the pages of the book and revels in the real world. Bush was delighted to find that the rhythm and sound of the words fit perfectly with the music she had been working on. Read more: classicalbumsundays.com

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This episode is 22:19 long.

This episode was published on Jan 18, 2023.

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