Even more so considering its ambitious two-suite concept, with the titular radio-friendlier first soon giving way to a nightmarish tale of survival dubbed 'The Ninth Wave.' However, the record not only returned Bush to the top of the U.K. You perhaps might not have expected Hounds of Love, therefore, to reverse her chart fortunes on either side of the Atlantic. This was unarguably Bush at her most autonomous, her most liberated, her purest. And she reportedly presented EMI with the finished product before execs had even heard a single note.

She further utilized the Fairlight CMI, the beast of a synthesizer that she’d first dabbled with on 1980's Never For Ever. She built a 48-track studio at the 17th century Kent farmhouse she shared with musician partner Del Palmer. Whereas many of her peers would have panickingly roped in a hit-making team to restore their former commercial glories, Bush doubled down on the D.I.Y. And by her mid-20s she’d essentially been consigned to the status of minor one-hit wonder.īy this point, even Bush’s homeland appeared to have cooled toward her increasingly complex singular vision: 1982’s self-produced The Dreaming, once self-described as the 'she’s gone mad' record, sold barely a fraction of its three predecessors and the NME would later run a slightly embarrassing piece asking 'Where Are They Now?' Although second single 'The Man with the Child In His Eyes' briefly graced the lower reaches of the US Hot 100, audiences weren’t convinced enough to pick up its parent album. Every record is shipped in original factory-applied shrink wrap and has never been touched by human hands.America, on the other hand, was a little more wary of this incredibly precocious enigma whose literate blend of art-pop, prog-rock and folk often needed its own CliffsNotes. The second side subtitled The Ninth Wave, forms a conceptual suite about a woman drifting alone in the sea at night.Įach record is protected within its record sleeve by a white vellum anti-dust sleeve.Īll items are shipped brand-new and unopened in original packaging.

The album's first side produced three further singles, 'Cloudbusting', 'Hounds of Love', and 'The Big Sky'. The album's lead single, 'Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)', became one of Bush's biggest hits. It was a commercial success and marked a return to the public eye for Bush after the relatively low sales of her previous album, 1982's The Dreaming. Hounds of Love is the fifth studio album by English singer Kate Bush, released on 16 September 1985 by EMI Records.

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