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What the fuck? Elvis no longer required??? When Elvis walked into Sun Studios in Memphis he changed the world, before Elvis there was...nothing.

"and there is still nothing it's all gone"

There's plenty of great stuff out there and great music never dies. Led Zeppelin for example may no longer be around but we still have their incredible music. Likewise Elvis, likewise Cobain...the list goes on.

The first CD is very obscure and fairly hard to decipher, with a lot of convoluted odes about life and personal issues. Dense stuff.

CD2 is absolutely outsatnding, she should have released this as a standalone album- she's back on Cloudbursting and Running up that Hill form.

Hence, I regard CD2 as the album proper, and CD1 as a bonus.

Excellent stuff, 4/5.

ff.

No matter what the level of genius there may be in a musical generation, the same rule always holds: there will always be tons of absolute dross. Our rose-tinted glasses dictates that we look back on what is great from an era, and conveniently ensure we forget the entire reality of it, the bad stuff, warts and all.

So, yes, the 60s and 70s ARE the halcyon days of this wonderful medium, but the work of masters were always being tainted and diluted by talentless upstarts. Sadly, the talentless tossers have mutated into what is known as the mainstream in contemporary music. A true star is but a brief, fleeting scintillation........

........and it is always good to see a past master back on form. Hopefully Bowie can raise his game.

However, to say there is now nothing is absolute piffle- just as academic scholars can enjoy literary and classical music genius of the past, Joe Public can visit or revisit a vast library of great music, even if the immediate modern scene offers very little, as it does now. We're lucky to live in an age where archives of books, films, music and even retro-videogames of the 80s can be enjoyed generations on.

IMHO!

ff.

she is one of the few musical geniuses we have produced in this country, plus she is actually quite normal to boot, which to me is refreshing

before she wrote this album an executive went to visit her to see what she was doing, she came into the living room with a tray of tea and biscuits and said,
'this is what i've been doing, being normal'

also during interviews for the new album an interviewer asked what she'd being doing all theses years, the answer

'Kate's beings cooking, Kate's being cleaning, Kate's being ironing'

just because she doesn't conform to the 'pop star' role people lalel her as a 'recluse', bollocks she's just normal with a massive talet for music. Just look at the people who cite her as a major influence (look it up)

it's beginning to piss me off the constant babble about her music being 'therapy'
nonsense, her current album is mainly about motherhood, listern to her lyrics and understand. This bullying stuff I feel is more therapy for a.n. other than her, she had a pretty good childhood being taken under the wing of some pretty major artists at the age of 13, hardly terrible.

ps. this is not directed at you rude boy just a post on the subject

I agree 100% with Diplo. Haven't heard the full album yet (track 5, CD1 so far), and it will take a few listens to form a fair and balanced opinion, but she is one of the true originals we have, and I'd imagine Aerial will be played quite often in the years to come.

I didn't understand the Ninth Wave part of Hounds Of Love, but whether it was stream of consciousness stuff, a dream, or whatever doesn't matter. It got slagged off at the time, but is still potent and alive and joyful now.

I'm glad she's back and producing music, but even happier that she's enjoying her life. Good on her.

(By the way, I have to wonder why the Classic Albums series never featured Hounds Of Love and Peter Gabriel III---two of the most influential albums of the 1980s)