![]() As her debut had been compiled from hundreds of songs she’d nurtured over time (in some cases years), Bush was reluctant to release something rushed and below par. UK No.6 US – Kate Bush Albums – Lionheartĭ espite being in the midst of a hectic promo schedule for The Kick Inside in the spring of 1978, EMI was already applying pressure on Kate for a second album – a move which marked the beginning of her frustration with the business side of the music industry, feeling it compromised the quality of her work. The success of the single proved the perfect launchpad for the album which went platinum, reaching No.3 and going on to become the UK’s ninth biggest-selling LP of 1978. Vindication arrived for her when the single reached No.1, bestowing her with the achievement of becoming the first female artist to top the charts with a self-penned song. Though the label favoured James And The Cold Gun as her debut single, Bush was adamant that Wuthering Heights should be released first. Of course, Kate’s knack for inhabiting characters is never more evident than on Wuthering Heights, her epic ode to the tragic protagonists of Emily Brontë’s classic gothic novel. ![]() The accomplished musicality of The Kick Inside is matched by its lyricism, which runs the gamut from the sensuous L’Amour Looks Something Like You and the almost giddy innocence of Kite to the title track, which tells the story of a girl contemplating suicide after she has fallen pregnant to her brother. Though initially nervous and intimidated by them, Bush’s prodigious talent flourished in the company of those tasked with making her ambitious ideas a reality. ![]() Culled from a list of more than 200 demos accumulated in the 18 months since Kate had signed toĮMI as an inexperienced, slightly naïve 17-year-old in 1976, The Kick Inside bristles with empathy and imagination.Ī product of the diverse range of influences pop’s latest ingénue had been surrounded by growing up, the album’s ability to veer effortlessly from the bewitching melodrama of the title track to the quirky reggae-lite of Them Heavy People, the haunting The Man With The Child In His Eyes (written when she was just 13 years old and included on the album in its original ‘demo’ form), to the rollicking James And The Cold Gun, is testament to Bush’s distinct style.Īlthough Kate had wanted the KT Bush Band – the group she’d been fronting at pub gigs to gain live experience – to play on the recording sessions at London’s AIR Studios in the summer of 1977, producer Andrew Powell overruled her in favour of more experienced musicians which included guitarist Ian Bairnson, bassist David Paton and drummer Stuart Elliott. Released in February 1978, as punk and disco jostled for chart and cultural supremacy, the album completely eschewed what was popular at the time, heralding the arrival of a singular voice that revelled in its individuality and uniqueness across 13 tracks. UK: No.3 US – Kate Bush Albums – The Kick InsideĪ s debut albums go, few establish the identity of their creator in as concise a manner as The Kick Inside. Andrea K.A rundown of all the Kate Bush albums, from 1978’s The Kick Inside to 2016’s Before The Dawn… By Mark Lindores Categorical and historical distinctions dissolve, so that Margaret Thatcher and Mickey Mouse, or a live model and a C.G.I.-generated avatar (to name an infinitesimal sample of Cwynar’s encyclopedic subjects), become interchangeable fodder for the feed. #THE HUMAN ABSTRACT FULL DISCOGRAPHY TORRENT TORRENT#Made during the pandemic, the nineteen-minute-long torrent of still and moving images (pictured, in a detail, above) includes footage of Cwynar in her studio, revisiting props and photographs from previous projects, in between scenes of recent protests in the streets of New York City, a grounded fleet of Alitalia planes, and an overwhelming array of other content. (The work’s title phrase is drawn from Shoshana Zuboff’s influential 2019 book, “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power.”) It’s also a portrait of the artist as her own archive. 23), is about the frictionless world of scrolling and swiping, in which the past and the future collapse into a tantalizing now that somehow remains just out of reach. The startlingly seductive, earnest, and beautiful six-part video “Glass Life,” by Sara Cwynar (on view at Foxy Production through Oct. ![]()
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