Kate Bush cut a peculiar figure in the early 80s – somewhere between post-punk and TV magazine programme Pebble Mill At One, between pop and prog. When Wuthering Heights was a hit in 1978, her vocals pitched way over the top, it would have been forgivable to predict one-hit-wonder status for her. Instead she made her histrionic style work, and by 1985 she was at the peak of her powers.
Although they contain no new audio, the three new editions of Hounds Of Love are the Baskerville edition, with new artwork from design studio Timorous Beasties, with an LED light inside the gatefold, and two The Boxes Of Lost At Sea editions, each containing one side of the album, with UV illustration on white vinyl, and an LED to create what Bush describes as “a hybrid of an album and a piece of artwork”.
Recorded using all of the state of the art apparatus of the mid-80s as well as more traditional Irish instruments, is at once highly contemporary but exuding a misty, mystical sense of the land. ever-ascending, is an immortal classic,
