50 Words for Snow is extraordinary business as usual for Bush, meaning it's packed with the kind of ideas you can't imagine anyone else in rock having.
It’s 50 Words for Snow’s improbable fusion of drama, magic and absurdity that makes it so compelling.
A lush, immersive work which is sonically more homogeneous than her earlier albums, reflecting the conceptual solidity of its wintry theme, in which fantastical, mythic narratives are allowed to take shape under the cover of its snowy blanket.
To let her quietly beautiful 10th album whisk you away you need a more reflective setting. 50 Words for Snow should be heard standing alone at icy window panes, gazing out.
While looking for 50 Words For Snow, she has found 50 other original ways to express herself effortlessly, creating another intriguing piece of work.
50 Words For Snow proves that Kate Bush is still one of the most innovative and talented songwriters of our time.
These tracks are sparse but airtight, haunting but unrelentingly gorgeous
It’s absorbing and enchanting without having to resort to formulaic song structures, pop thrills or radio-friendly catchiness.
And jolly spectacular it is too, which is never a guarantee
Her best music, this album included, has the effect of putting one in the kind of treasured, child-like space-- not so much innocent as open to imagination-- that never gets old.
If every song here had been of the same standard as the opening suite of three, and the final two, 50 Words For Snow would have been an all-time classic
While it shares sheer ambition with Scott Walker's The Drift and PJ Harvey's Let England Shake, it sounds like neither; Bush's album is equally startling because its will toward the mysterious and elliptical is balanced by its beguiling accessibility.
It's human connection despite the odds that has been at the heart of Bush's music from the beginning. With 50 Words for Snow, she casts the theme in a bolder and bleaker light than ever before.
While the album is as icy as its title implies, there’s a dormant warmth to 50 Words that compensates for its lack of hooks.
50 Words for Snow is a success not only because it's so challengingly bold and peculiar, but because it repackages Bush's usual idiosyncrasies in an entirely new form.
yeah i have a boyfriend you wouldn't know him i built him yesterday and he melted in the night
* Snowflakes (8/10)
* Lake Tahoe (7.5/10)
* Misty (9.5/10)
* Wild Man (8.5/10)
* Snowed In At Wheeler St. (8.5/10)
* 50 Words For Snow (7/10)
* Among Angels (8/10)
Nota Final: 81/100
PONTOS ADICIONAIS
• Vocais +1
• Composição +1
• Produção +1
Nota Final: 84/100
it's a pleasant listen from start to finish and has some decent ideas to it but throughout the 65-minute runtime, 50 words for snow doesn't really engage me in the same way that kate bush's other work does.
still impressive that she dropped an album this good 33 years into her career though.
1 | Snowflake 9:46 | 91 |
2 | Lake Tahoe 11:08 | 85 |
3 | Misty 13:32 | 90 |
4 | Wild Man 7:16 | 88 |
5 | Snowed In at Wheeler Street 8:05 | 87 |
6 | 50 Words for Snow 8:30 | 76 |
7 | Among Angels 6:48 | 81 |
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