album review
The Kick Inside
Kate Bush, scarcely past adolescence, inhabited Cathy’s specter at the casement and crafted ‘Wuthering Heights,’ attaining number-one ascendancy as a debut whilst remaining entirely, unapologetically herself. The composition declared itself an edifice of radical particularity, built with adamantine disregard for the homogenizing imperatives of commercial expectation.
what it left me with
Radical authenticity at the inception is not a liability to be overcome; it is the foundational capital. The impulse to sand away singularity is the true profligacy. Preserve the strange, the particular, the unmistakably you.
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