release date: Sep. 16, 1985
format: vinyl / cd
[album rate: 4 / 5] [4,08]
producer: Kate Bush
label: EMI - nationality: England, UK
Track highlights: A-side) ['Hounds of Love'] 1. "Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)" 2. "Hounds of Love" (5 / 5) - 5. "Cloudbusting" (4 / 5) - - B-side) ['The Ninth Wave'] 2. "Under Ice" - 5. "Jig of Life" - 6. "Hello Earth" - 7. "The Morning Fog"
5th studio album by Kate Bush released three years after The Dreaming (Sep. 1982). After the long and financially difficult studio sessions working on her 82 album Bush built her own studio so she could use whatever time she needed on making new music. The album's style is more mainstream but it still could be categorised as art pop. Where The Dreaming appears as introspective and somewhat angry this comes out as deliberately more positive and open. The A-side on the original vinyl issue is titled 'Hounds of Love', and it encompasses the more evident pop hits, whereas the B-side, titled 'The Ninth Wave' is more of one conceptual progressive composition in several acts. The album contains some of her best single hits and it was her second album to top the albums chart list in the UK. It's by many considered her very best album, which I understand, although, I think you cannot overestimate her magic debut. Hounds of Love is nevertheless enlisted in countless lists comprising all time best albums, which includes "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die".
Highly recommended.
[ allmusic.com 4,5 / 5, Sounds, Q Magazine 5 / 5 stars ]
Highly recommended.
[ allmusic.com 4,5 / 5, Sounds, Q Magazine 5 / 5 stars ]
