Kate Bush

The Dreaming

Unusually beautiful

Review Score:

(10/10)
'The Dreaming' is an album which improves immeasurably after a few plays. Like most of her releases it is a slow-burner, but slow-burners are often the ones that end up being the best albums.
This is most definately the case with 'The Dreaming'.
All of the songs on this record are full of lyrics which would perhaps puzzle anyone but Bush herself - "Suddenly my feet are feet of mud, it all goes slow mo, I don't know why Im crying, Am I suspended in gaffa' from 'Suspended In Gaffa' being a prime example of this, although it is no bad thing - it actually increases the interest in the songs.
What it clearly is, is an album contained of fury, death and eroticism. Its heavy stuff at times, perhaps with the exception of 'There Goes A Tenner', a tale of bank robbery and such, but even this has an undercurrant of resentment.
This being the first album Bush produced alone, it seems as if she had all but forgotten her three previous LPs. The songs have been made in a way that suggests that all other forms of music never existed and that the structure and writing of song is something completly new. A grand statement indeed, but no other record - including any of her own - has ever being created resembling this one (I could be mistaken, but I know for a fact that nothing before it did).
There are really no poor tracks on this album, they all bask in a unique and touching brilliance, the unspeakably gorgeous 'Night Of The Swallow' perhaps being the best on the album. This is by far the best record I have ever bought, it stinks that it didn't do as well as some of her other stuff but absolutely worth a listen.

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