In anticipation of that possible moment, we decide to go back and watch fellow Brits, Placebo deliver an epic cover of ‘Running Up That Hill’ live at the UK’s Reading Festival in 2006.įrontman, Brian Molko’s emotionally fragile vocal is a perfect match for the song that endlessly builds with the tension of anticipation. The image’s saturation in purplish pink and Bush’s perhaps sultry expression combine to create an impression of traditional femininity, which resonates with the album’s themes of gender and sensuality. The album features her as composer, performer and producer, working with more or less complete.
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It was recorded in her own studio, in the grounds of her home, as studio fees for her previous albums had been very high. Over in the UK, she has been sitting at Number Two on the UK Singles Chart, giving pop star Harry Styles a decent run for Number One. On the cover of Hounds of Love, we see an image of Bush reclining and embracing two dogs-who were, in fact, her own pets. Hounds of Love (a concept album) was Kate ush’s fifth studio album (released in 1985), and the second that she had produced. The cover art for the album Hounds of Love by Kate Bush. It was a commercial success and marked a return to the public eye for Bush after the relatively poor sales of her previous album, 1982’s The Dreaming. It topped the UK album chart for three weeks in September and October 1985, ousting from that position another album by a female artist, albeit miles away in style (see no. With her self-produced fifth album, Kate Bush became a total auteur, embracing the possibilities of digital sampling synthesizers and creating a perfect marriage of technique and. Last week, Billboard reported that the 37-year-old alt-pop hit was at Number Eight on the Hot 100 Singles chart, which was another first for the music icon who had never before landed a US Top 10 single. Hounds of Love is the fifth studio album by English singer-songwriter and musician Kate Bush, released by EMI Records on September 15, 1985. Hounds of Love became Kate Bush’s best-selling album, one of those rare moments in music history when an artistic peak is also a commercial one. Propelled by the force of Netflix’s Stranger Things 4, Running Up That Hill has been running up the charts since the show premiered at the end of May. Photo by Paul Bergen/Redferns/Getty Images.īy some sort of supernatural phenomenon, Kate Bush has, this week, scored her first-ever Number One on a Billboard albums chart with her 1985 LP ‘Hounds Of Love’, currently sites at the top of the Top Alternative Albums on (June 11).