THE KICK INSIDE

This was appropriately my first KATE BUSH album and I fell for it upon first listen. Nobody in all of the musical world sounds like her. At the young age of 13 she already had her fingers on the pulse of the musical world and was creating, crafting and delivering her own passionate array of well polished songs with her own unique stamp on them. By the time she was sending demos she had already created over 50 songs.

After sending her demos around one finally got to David Gilmour who would help her refine them into more professional sounding pieces and thus would help catapult her into instant stardom in her native UK. By the time she was 19 her debut album was released and her singles such as 'Wuthering Heights' began to fly up the charts at home and then abroad.

I listen to this now and it does the same for as it did the very first time I heard it. Powerful stuff indeed because of Kate's strangely idiosyncratic vocal style and haunting cord changes that she has successfully integrated into the music to give it a unique feminine style. It still gives me goosebumps. 4.5 rounded up