Hounds of Love CD

[SCRANTON@gmr.com]

Village Voice, October 20, 1987:

"Best Sounding CD of the Month: The Magical Mystery Tour
(EMI/Parlophone) probably ought to be here, but it's been bumped by a
disk that's filtering into this county unofficially: Kate Bush's
Hounds of Love on British EMI.  The import, unlike the American
version, was remixed from the multi-tracks into an entirely new
recording, adding a Mahler-like orchestral vastness to Bush's
folk/art-song sensibilities (which derive from Delius and Vaughan
Williams).  The songs' psychic intimacy is terrifying amid the
enormously expanded production, and the entire work is a modern
"mystery tour", emptied of its druggy ambience and smug idealism and
filled instead with Bush's touching, mordant feminist vision."

--John Scranton