A Pitchfork review of Kate Bush, The Dreaming (1982)
A meditation on the sound and cultural world of Bush’s first real artist statement album. It was nerve-wracking for me to grapple with the huge archive of critical thought and fan appreciation for Kate Bush. What more is there to say? I focused on the metaphors of the mouth and use of shapeshifting, and did a gentle call out of her sometimes problematic appropriation of distant Others in her laudable attempt to embrace storylines cross cultures. Very thankful to my editor Jeremy Larson for sticking with me on this one.