While the first single, “Running Up That Hill”, a risque and vulnerable song about female orgasms, was the big hit from the record, the title track is also as stupendous bit of lightly orchestrated synth pop. Hounds Of Love (released in 1985) was Bush‘s fifth album and is widely considered her strongest to date. While Bush‘s music can seem on surface to be a sophisticated bit of whimsy, a deeper listen often reveals deeper themes explored to life and death levels of import. It is almost impossible to understate her importance to the wider UK pop scene and to certain segments of British feminist (as well as the UK’s gay) culture more generally. She is one of those rare artists admired by popular audiences and critics alike and remains a compelling figure as a musician, as an interpretive dancer and as a feminist icon. Having topped the UK singles charts at the precocious age of 19 with her pop adaptation of Emily Brontë‘s novel, Wuthering Heights, Bush channeled her literary sensibilities and feminism into a series of increasingly both musically and thematically complex pop albums, that earned her acclaim in both the mainstream and indie worlds. There are few figures in pop music quite as iconoclastic as Kate Bush. There are few figures in pop music quite as iconoclastic as Kate Bush

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