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Unlike her most obvious acolytes (Sarah McLachlan, Tori Amos), you won’t find elusive and operatic British chanteuse Kate Bush dumbing down her out-there sound to appease an aging demographic of elfin waifs turned minivan moms. Fans will be over the roof about Aerial, which, more than a decade after her last album, stays true to the whimsical and wacky Bush of yore. In her two-part opus, Bush first celebrates the magical and maddening aspects of domesticity, savouring the ‘slooshy slooshy’ noises of a washing machine and cooing (embarrassingly) over her wee son’s darling smile, then launches into flight with part two (A Sky Of Honey), where songs about painters and the country landscape bleed into each other in a conceptual set piece. Bush’s voice is as squiggly and captivating as it was early on, and though the production can sound awfully dated (there’s some bad faux Peter Gabriel action going on), it seems somehow suited to the otherworldliness of Bush’s keen, fantastical observations.

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