My lady is performing at a Kate Bush tribute event next week, so I've been listening to a bunch of Bush's stuff, and keep coming back to her first LP, The Kick Inside.It's not as musically adventurous as The Dreaming or Hounds of Love, which I'm going to assume you've already heard; it's more like a prog-ish take on 70s pop/rock.But it's a remarkable record in its own right.
Tascam us-2x2. 's first album, released when the singer/songwriter was only 19 years old (but featuring some songs written at 15 and recorded at 16), is her most unabashedly romantic, the sound of an impressionable and highly precocious teenager spreading her wings for the first time. The centerpiece is 'Wuthering Heights,' which was a hit everywhere except the United States (and propelled the novel back onto the best-seller lists in England), but there is a lot else here to enjoy: The disturbing 'Man with the Child in His Eyes,' the catchy rocker 'James and the Cold Gun,' and 'Feel It,' an early manifestation of 's explorations of sexual experience in song, which would culminate with 'Hounds of Love.' As those familiar with the latter well know, she would do better work in the future, but this is still a mightily impressive debut.