Kate Bush seeks and finds a miraculous synthesis between the electronic (synthesizers, samplers, and drum machines) and the acoustic (piano soliloquies, tempestuous strings, Irish jigs, and messianic choirs), crafting songs that feel like cinematic narratives poised between wakefulness and dream, with vertiginous temporal flashbacks to childhood (Cloudbusting, The Big Sky). The long suite The Ninth Wave (a metaphorical journey from the abyssal dark to the misty light of morning) remains her masterpiece.
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