I've always adored Kate Bush. Her new album Aerial (her first for 12 years) is out next week. But most of it can be streamed at the moment from nme.com, so I've been listening to it today. It's a delight. Much of it is just Kate playing piano and the sound of her beautiful, dreamy, ethereal voice. There's a few rather wacky touches, as are to be expected from Kate. 'Prelude', the first track on the second CD of Aerial, features what sounds like a child's voiceover and the coo of mourning doves (the speakers on my office computer aren't the greatest, so it's hard to be sure). Actually, there seems to be rather a lot of birdsong. But for sheer weirdness, however, nothing could ever beat the Bulgarian choristers she had singing backup on most of The Sensual World. Aerial is considerably less odd, but no less enjoyable.
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