This may be the album Kate Bush is the least happy with.<\/p>\n
One, she was rushed. The music industry meatgrinder demanded a follow-up to The Kick Inside<\/i> and its massive hit \u201cWuthering Heights\u201d as fast as she could crank it out. Escaping to France to record Lionheart<\/i> didn\u2019t help much.<\/p>\n
Two, this is the album after which Kate broke with her first producer Andrew Powell. After this, she would produce her own work. In her own words, \u201dBy the time the second album was finished, I knew that I had to be involved. Even though they were my songs and I was singing them, the finished product was not what I wanted. That wasn’t the producer’s fault. He was doing a good job from his point of view, making it sound good and together. But for me, it was not my album, really.\u201d\u00a0<\/i>(Kate Bush Encyclopaedia, 2014)<\/p>\n
Lionheart<\/i> is very much an album in transition. It has some transparent moments, elegant and simple\u2014\u201cFullhouse\u201d with its maybe-autobiographical and psychological concept, the unabashed sensuality of \u201cIn The Warm Room,\u201d and the romp that is \u201cWow.\u201d However, there are also tracks like \u201cO England My Lionheart,\u201d which Kate considers \u201cembarrassing,\u201d and the excess of \u201cDon\u2019t Push Your Heart On The Heartbrake.\u201d \u201cIn Search Of Peter Pan\u201d has a few nice turns of phrase, but is forgettable. Oddly enough, Kate seems to hit an even keel on the last three tracks\u2014\u201cKashka From Baghdad,\u201d \u201cCoffee Homeground\u201d (perhaps the only pop song about poisoning people besides The Police\u2019s \u201cMurder By Numbers\u201d), and \u201cHammer Horror\u201d (which is NOT about the fun horror movies from Britain\u2019s Hammer Studios).<\/p>\n
It was difficult to live up to \u201cWuthering Heights.\u201d Eventually, Bush seemed to just stop trying, and was the better for it. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":34547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[6100],"rating":[5614],"class_list":["post-46393","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-kate-bush","rating-rating-c-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=46393"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=46393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}