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Hounds of Love

★★★★★  album

Hounds of Love

Side one achieves pop consummation; side two chronicles a woman in spiritual descent, contending with the numinous. Kate Bush has always operated outside the borders of commercial expectation, and her choices invariably vindicate themselves. ‘Running Up That Hill’ was always a masterwork; the algorithm has merely acceded to its true measure.

what it left me with

The defiantly unmarketable half frequently harbors the deepest truth. Originate only what your singular artistic vision could articulate.

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