Review of the album in the Nov. 5 _L.A. Times_

[ed@das.llnl.gov (Edward Suranyi)]

There's a review of the album in tomorrow's (Nov. 4) _Los Angeles
Times_.  Actually, it's an expanded version of the short review that
was in last week's Pop Music Special, which I posted.

A Grown-Up Kate Bush Veers Closer to Earth
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KATE BUSH
"The Sensual World." Columbia
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     Goddess or gooney bird?  Even some of this English progressive
popstress' loyalties sometimes have to wonder.  Though on 1985's "Hounds
of Love" Bush stripped away many of the quirks of youthful exuberance 
that had marred her unique approach, some will always find her attention-
getting vocals precious and her quasi-comic outlook and naked emotionalism
off-putting.  But this, her first album since "Hounds," is even more
mature and accomplished.  As Bush herself sings in "The Fog," "You see,
I'm all grown up now."
     The glorious Trio Bulgarka sings on three songs, further expanding
Bush's already thoroughly developed world vision -- perhaps only Peter
Gabriel melds so many cultural elements with such seemless flair.  But
it's the *how*, not the *what*, that distinguishes her accomplishments.
     Listen to the mournful Balkan wail that punctuates "Deeper
Understanding's" look at loneliness in the computer age.  No Post-Modern
irony or juxtaposition here; rather, the combination transforms the song
into a wide-eyed-wonderful essay on the human condition, with all the 
sensuality promised in the album title.  It's enough to make you go, well,
gooney.
					-- Steve Hochman

I think this full review sounds considerably more positive than the
excerpt they published last week.




Ed (Edward Suranyi)        |     "Bush is an acquired taste worth
Dept. of Applied Science   |              cultivating."
UC Davis/Livermore         |                 -- _People_ magazine
ed@das.llnl.gov            |        (in review of _The Dreaming_)