Kate Bush’s visionary 1985 concept album, Hounds of Love, was the second she had produced on her own (after The Dreaming in 1982), and the first recorded in her own studio. It sounded strikingly ...
And she and her electropop are as good as it gets. “Hit Me Hard and Soft” is a shoo-in for my best albums of 2024 list. And Sunday’s concert will make my best of 2024 list as well, a superb ...
After spending two albums as a faint outline shrouded in mist (Seventeen Seconds and 1981’s Faith), Smith seemed to leap from the murk on the opening track from 1982’s Pornography, shrieking “It doesn ...