kate bush "aerial"

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Woo-hoo, I have the CD in my hands! My record shop had it early and i've got the day off... sweet...

― Baaderonixx says DANCE!! TAKE A CHANCE!!! are you ready for... TRUE ROMANCE (baa, Friday, 4 November 2005 13:22 (eighteen years ago) link

"goodnight sonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn"

"goodnight mum!"

― bird-person-person (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 5 November 2005 20:10 (eighteen years ago) link

I was hoping this thing was going to be good but not this good. It does sound dated, but I don't mean it pejoratively - it's like she just did what she did and didn't give a damn how trendy it sounded, much as Robert Wyatt does as well - the melodies and the vocal phrasings are amazing and carry the record easily without relying on some clever sampled loop to hold it together. Best since Smile?

― Brakhage (brakhage), Saturday, 5 November 2005 21:46 (eighteen years ago) link

it's like she just did what she did and didn't give a damn how trendy it sounded

yeah, it's obvious she's only making music for herself. which is fine.

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 5 November 2005 23:04 (eighteen years ago) link

If anyone else likes it it's a bonus.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Sunday, 6 November 2005 00:39 (eighteen years ago) link

cover art, just for kicks:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000BHNLX0.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― gear (gear), Sunday, 6 November 2005 00:44 (eighteen years ago) link

'Sunset' just kills me. Bush's last 'turn to dust ...' before the guitars burst in. Fantastic.

― Brakhage (brakhage), Sunday, 6 November 2005 00:54 (eighteen years ago) link

That cover art was a blank space. :( I'd post it meself but I can't be bothered.

Look I really do feel that this album is the cure for Cancer, AIDS, secret to world peace, etc. oh my god I just realized I left the last track off when I made my CD! Oh please shoot me, I'm guilty. No, it can't be true. I shouldn't even talk. Never mind. Look, I have ordered the album already so at least I have paid for it.

I will say though, that I have absolutely NO problem with King of The Mountain now that I've heard the rest of the album. It fits in so very nicely and perfectly. It just isn't much of a "single" but then nothing on this is, and I like it that way.

I can't believe I missed the last track! Please shoot me now!

― Bimble The Nimble, Jumped Over A Thimble! (Bimble...), Sunday, 6 November 2005 06:11 (eighteen years ago) link

But I don't have the CD in the mail yet, so do any of you know - are the lyrics included?

― Bimble The Nimble, Jumped Over A Thimble! (Bimble...), Sunday, 6 November 2005 07:18 (eighteen years ago) link

"make those cuffs and colors gleam...slooshy slushy slooshy slushy..."

― Bimble The Nimble, Jumped Over A Thimble! (Bimble...), Sunday, 6 November 2005 07:20 (eighteen years ago) link

WE STAND IN THE ATLANTIC
AND WE BECOME PANORAMIC

― Bimble The Nimble, Jumped Over A Thimble! (Bimble...), Sunday, 6 November 2005 08:08 (eighteen years ago) link

i hate that line which is too bad because otherwise I really like that song

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 6 November 2005 15:53 (eighteen years ago) link

i LOVE that line!

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 6 November 2005 16:12 (eighteen years ago) link

tomorrow, tommorrow, I'll love you tomorrow it's only a day away :)

― Worst song, played on ugliest guitar (fandango), Sunday, 6 November 2005 16:15 (eighteen years ago) link

I've been ignoring this thread, but now I'm thinking I might make Aerial my token English language CD purchase of the year.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 6 November 2005 16:21 (eighteen years ago) link

I recommend listening to "Pi" and writing down the numbers as she sings them, it's really great fun. You have to write them the same *way* she sings them though, spell them out or drag them out as necessary with ellipses! (.....) Then post it here, if you like!

Also have strings sounded so good since the 19th century than they do on "Bertie"? (okay I trust you ILMers will point to examples, but never mind)

Somewhere during "Prologue" I realize I'm not in Kansas anymore. Further, I find it interesting that every time I hear the album it's always during "Somewhere In Between" that I suddenly notice it just does not SOUND like her, like nothing she's ever done before. This feeling continues through "Nocturne". What an acheivement!!

― Bimble The Nimble, Jumped Over A Thimble! (Bimble...), Sunday, 6 November 2005 22:14 (eighteen years ago) link

it sounds exactly like kate bush to me. not a bad thing at all. but let's not get carried away. 50% is pretty brilliant, 50% is aural wallpaper.

― bugged out, Sunday, 6 November 2005 22:23 (eighteen years ago) link

"prologue" might be my favorite of the tracks right now.

― bird-person-person (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 6 November 2005 22:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes, "let's not get carried away". Why would we want to do that?

― Bimble The Nimble, Jumped Over A Thimble! (Bimble...), Monday, 7 November 2005 00:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Is it out in the U.S.? Why is only the single available on iTunes?

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 7 November 2005 02:01 (eighteen years ago) link

tuesday (11.08) in the US.

― william, it was really nothing (superpopelectro), Monday, 7 November 2005 02:13 (eighteen years ago) link

3.1415926

and then she just keeps going!

Fuck, that song kills me. The Bertie song too, I have nephews ages 5 and 3 and they are so much like that.

Top three of the year for me, for sure. And I didn't even really like the last two!

― sleeve (sleeve), Monday, 7 November 2005 03:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Hmm, I'd like to be as excited about the album but for the moment I'm relatively ambivalent. The twee-ness puts me off, the Bertie song I have to skip and the duet with the birds makes me cringe. The rest seems a bit bland.
OTOH, something tells me that I'll grow to love it.

― Baaderonixx says DANCE!! TAKE A CHANCE!!! are you ready for... TRUE ROMANCE (baa, Monday, 7 November 2005 13:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Aerial b**ches!! Are you hearing this shiznit? King of the Mountain is the jump off, Pi is the f*cking joint, the rest of this sh*t is off the f*cking chain!!

I rather like it.

― Dr J Bowman, Monday, 7 November 2005 13:50 (eighteen years ago) link

ok*y

― caramel voltaire (FE7), Monday, 7 November 2005 14:21 (eighteen years ago) link

only ok*y?

― Dr J Bowman, Monday, 7 November 2005 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Well, it's better than The Red Shoes. It's like that last Peter Gabriel album... Listenable and better than I expected, but certainly not something I see any reason to ever listen to again.

I wish I could remember where I've heard that earworm blues riff in "How to be invisible" before.

― Øystein (Øystein), Monday, 7 November 2005 15:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Just bought my copy (Fopp turned out to be cheaper than Amazon). I just want to go home right now and listen to it, but I fear I may only get a wee taster today.

Packaging fetishists like me should note that the album is presented in a tri-panel gatefold digipack (heh - I was expecting one of those clunky double-width jewel cases like The White Album and The Wall still come in).

The inner gatefold pic is washing on a line blowing in the wind which gradually morphs as you go from left to right into doves on the wing. The lyric booklet is lovely too, lots of very personal images to go with Sea of Honey (cf. Mojo interview) and lots more bird and audiowave pics in the section on Sky of Honey.

― Jeff W (zebedee), Monday, 7 November 2005 16:12 (eighteen years ago) link

... maybe you need to listen to it again before you'll see the need to listen to it again...

― Dr J Bowman, Monday, 7 November 2005 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't know if someone has said this already, but there was a half-hour radio interview with her on Friday evening on Radio 4's 'Front Row' programme. You can find it through the show's homepage if you want to hear it:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/frontrow/index.shtml

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 7 November 2005 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link

On one listen, I wasn't entirely convinced until 'Nocturn' Pwn3d my world whole.

ok, Isolee could definitely lose this year's #1 spot haha! mmmm, more listens required I think :D

― Worst song, played on ugliest guitar (fandango), Monday, 7 November 2005 19:26 (eighteen years ago) link

The inner gatefold pic is washing on a line blowing in the wind

that's definitely a recurring theme... "mrs. bartolozzi," the KOTM video...

― bird-person-person (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 7 November 2005 19:30 (eighteen years ago) link

coming up from behind: "joanni" (i'm a bit sick of joan of arc as a pop theme, but this is nifty. i can almost hear it playing as incidental music in an episode of xena: warrior princess)

― bird-person-person (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 7 November 2005 19:35 (eighteen years ago) link

http://people.wiesbaden.netsurf.de/~anfrabett/xena/film/xen08.jpg http://photo.sing365.com/music/picture.nsf/Kate-Bush-photo/48256C71003578A2482569A0002D33C2/$file/Kate+Bush.jpg

― bird-person-person (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 7 November 2005 19:40 (eighteen years ago) link

i can almost hear it playing as incidental music in an episode of xena: warrior princess

there's the promo sticker headline

― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 7 November 2005 19:52 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm just very fond of Sea of Honey at the moment, but Sky of Honey is thoroughly awesome. The other reference point that occurred to me was Rickie Lee Jones circa Pirates.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 03:47 (eighteen years ago) link

washing machine?

the emperor has no clothes, guys

― Brett G. (Brett G.), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 08:02 (eighteen years ago) link

welcome, random googler.

― america's next top ramen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 08:11 (eighteen years ago) link

i've been around, don't post much...

this album is so overwraught it's kinda pathetic, how are you people gushing?

― Brett G. (Brett G.), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 08:13 (eighteen years ago) link

we're less stoic than you?

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 08:15 (eighteen years ago) link

I really fucking hate people who are into joy and love and bliss, fucking poseurs.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 08:41 (eighteen years ago) link

but the album isn't joyful, it's cloying, over-the-top dramatics with little substance...

― Brett G. (Brett G.), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 09:09 (eighteen years ago) link

I find it pretty joyful. Judging by this thread and the various reviews and articles I've read about it so do a LOT of other people.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 09:13 (eighteen years ago) link

hmm, i guess you guys are right then...

― Brett G. (Brett G.), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 09:17 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't find it cloying at all, it's all about restraint and celebrating the Mundane in its proper sense. There are no exaggerated emotional tropes, it's far less theatrical than anything she's done previously. It's all substance, it's very very Zen.

― Patchouli Clark (noodle vague), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 09:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Breet, there is no right or wrong; neither our opinion or yours or the opinion of someone who thinks that Aerial is actually a unicorn rather than a CD (OK maybe their's is wrong...), but to say "it's so overwraught, how is anyone enjoying this?" when people are saying how and why at length on this thread, well... it just seems kinda dense to me.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 09:29 (eighteen years ago) link

I dunno, as a fan who's still not convinced about the album, I'm a bit exasperated by some of the fan-boy gushing, e.g."OMG she's singing NUMBERS!! She's imitating BIRDS!!!!"

― Baaderonixx says DANCE!! TAKE A CHANCE!!! are you ready for... TRUE ROMANCE (baa, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 09:48 (eighteen years ago) link

This feels like a thread that been waiting for dissent...

― Mika, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 09:56 (eighteen years ago) link

I figure after 12 years people are allowed to throw a bit of a playfully hyperbolic fit. And I like the sense of real-time discovery you get on threads like this.

― Patchouli Clark (noodle vague), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 09:57 (eighteen years ago) link

If she'd just released A Sea of Honey by itself I think I'd be a bit underwhelmed (although no more underwhelmed than I was by The Red Shoes - it's generally not as good as that album's best moments but much better than it's worst) but I genuinely think that A Sky of Honey is a work of genius. It probably overtakes Fleetwood Mac's Say You Will as my comeback of the 00s.

The sheer intensity of the slowburn builds in "Sunset" and "Nocturne" and "Aerial" is just incredible.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 10:09 (eighteen years ago) link

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