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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Adam Boult

Write for us about: Kate Bush

Kate Bush
Cold comfort … Kate Bush's 50 Words for Snow. Photograph: Trevor Leighton

50 Words for Snow, the latest album from Kate Bush and No 29 in the Guardian's albums of the year list, has received many glowing reviews. Alexis Petridis described it as "extraordinary business as usual for Bush".

It's packed with the kind of ideas you can't imagine anyone else in rock having. Taking notions that look entirely daft on paper and rendering them into astonishing music is very much Bush's signature move. There's something utterly inscrutable and unknowable about how she does it that has nothing to do with her famous aversion to publicity. Better not to worry, to just listen to an album that, like the weather it celebrates, gets under your skin and into your bones.

50 Words for Snow followed April's similarly praised Director's Cut, making 2011 a productive year for a singer who has previously kept fans waiting 12 years for new material, between 1993's The Red Shoes and Ariel in 2005.

And now we'd like to know which of her 10 studio albums you think is the greatest. If you'd like to take part, please submit a review of the album of your choice via the links below. We'll be publishing a selection of readers' reviews on Friday.

The Kick Inside

Lionheart

Never for Ever

The Dreaming

Hounds of Love

The Sensual World

The Red Shoes

Aerial

Director's Cut

50 Words for Snow

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