
A great album, but it needs time!

Aerial is the first Kate Bush album i have ever had the pleasure of listening to. Infact i have never listened to any of her older work, except of course 'Wuthering Heights'. Aerial is a superb album although its not an album you can buy and instantly be pleased with. When i purchased this album after the first listen, i was convinced that i didn't like it. But i gave it a chance and the songs started to grow on me. And now its an album im proud to own. Aerial is in two distinct halves - the first side, A Sea of Honey, is a collection of distinct, highly personal, sometimes impenetrably personal, songs. Side two, A Sky of Honey, is an old-fashioned concept album - complex, layered, perhaps pretentious, but also a dazzling aural masterpiece.
A Sea of Honey has seven wildly different songs which touch on aspects of her daily life, both public and personal. The single 'King of the Mountain' opens the album full of swelling synthesizers and pounding beats and with its almost cryptic lyrics sets the tone for side one. All of the songs have a swirling, almost uncontrolled creativity as if Bush has had these songs bottled up for more than a decade. Make sure you don't miss this album.
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