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The Sensual World is the sixth studio album by the English singer Kate Bush. It was released in October 1989.
An enchanting songstress, Kate Bush reflects the most heavenly views of love on the aptly titled The Sensual World. The follow-up to Hounds of Love features Bush unafraid to be a temptress, vocally and lyrically. She's a romantic, frolicking over lust and love, but also a lover of life and its spirituality.
The album's title track exudes the most sensually abrasive side of Bush, but she is also one to remain emotionally intact with her heart and head. The majority of The Sensual World beams with a carefree spirit of strength and independence. "Love and Anger," which features blistering riffs by Bush's mentor and cohort David Gilmour, thrives on self-analysis -- typically cathartic of Bush. Michael Nyman's delicate string arrangements allow the melodic "Reaching Out" to simply arrive, freely floating with Bush's lush declaration ("reaching out for the star/reaching out for the star that explodes") for she's always searching for a common peace, a commonality to make comfort.
What makes this artist so intriguing is her look toward the future -- she appears to look beyond what's present and find a peculiar celestial atmosphere in which human beings do exist. She's conscious of technology on "Deeper Understanding" and of a greater life on the glam rock experimental "Rocket's Tail (For Rocket)," yet she's still intrinsic to the reality of an individual's heart. "Between a Man and a Woman" depicts pressure and heartbreak, but it's the beauty of "This Woman's Work" that makes The Sensual World the outstanding piece of work that it is.
She possesses maternal warmth that's surely inviting, and it's something that's made her one of the most prolific female singer/songwriters to emerge during the 1980s. She's never belonged to a core scene. Bush's intelligence, both as an artist and as a woman, undoubtedly casts her in a league of her own.
Tracklist
1. "The Sensual World" - 3:57
2. "Love and Anger" - 4:42
3. "The Fog" - 5:04
4. "Reaching Out" - 3:11
5. "Heads We're Dancing" - 5:17
6. "Deeper Understanding" - 4:46
7. "Between a Man and a Woman" - 3:29
8. "Never Be Mine" - 3:43
9. "Rocket's Tail" - 4:06
10. "This Woman's Work" - 3:32
All tracks written by Kate Bush.
Personnel
Notes
Released: 16 October 1989
Recorded: 1987–1989 Studio Wickham Farm Home Studio (Welling, England) and Windmill Lane Studios
Genre: Art rock, baroque pop, progressive pop
Length: 45:48
Label - EMI Records
An enchanting songstress, Kate Bush reflects the most heavenly views of love on the aptly titled The Sensual World. The follow-up to Hounds of Love features Bush unafraid to be a temptress, vocally and lyrically. She's a romantic, frolicking over lust and love, but also a lover of life and its spirituality.
The album's title track exudes the most sensually abrasive side of Bush, but she is also one to remain emotionally intact with her heart and head. The majority of The Sensual World beams with a carefree spirit of strength and independence. "Love and Anger," which features blistering riffs by Bush's mentor and cohort David Gilmour, thrives on self-analysis -- typically cathartic of Bush. Michael Nyman's delicate string arrangements allow the melodic "Reaching Out" to simply arrive, freely floating with Bush's lush declaration ("reaching out for the star/reaching out for the star that explodes") for she's always searching for a common peace, a commonality to make comfort.
What makes this artist so intriguing is her look toward the future -- she appears to look beyond what's present and find a peculiar celestial atmosphere in which human beings do exist. She's conscious of technology on "Deeper Understanding" and of a greater life on the glam rock experimental "Rocket's Tail (For Rocket)," yet she's still intrinsic to the reality of an individual's heart. "Between a Man and a Woman" depicts pressure and heartbreak, but it's the beauty of "This Woman's Work" that makes The Sensual World the outstanding piece of work that it is.
She possesses maternal warmth that's surely inviting, and it's something that's made her one of the most prolific female singer/songwriters to emerge during the 1980s. She's never belonged to a core scene. Bush's intelligence, both as an artist and as a woman, undoubtedly casts her in a league of her own.
Tracklist
1. "The Sensual World" - 3:57
2. "Love and Anger" - 4:42
3. "The Fog" - 5:04
4. "Reaching Out" - 3:11
5. "Heads We're Dancing" - 5:17
6. "Deeper Understanding" - 4:46
7. "Between a Man and a Woman" - 3:29
8. "Never Be Mine" - 3:43
9. "Rocket's Tail" - 4:06
10. "This Woman's Work" - 3:32
All tracks written by Kate Bush.
Personnel
- Kate Bush - piano, keyboards, vocals, producer
- Paddy Bush - mandolin, valiha, tupan, whip (swished fishing rod), backing vocals
- Dr. Bush (Robert Bush, Kate's father) - dialogue
- Clare Connors - violin
- Stuart Elliott - drums
- John Giblin - bass guitar
- David Gilmour - guitar
- Michael Kamen - orchestra arrangement
- Mick Karn - bass guitar
- Nigel Kennedy - violin, viola
- Dónal Lunny - bouzouki
- Charlie Morgan - drums
- Alan Murphy - guitar
- Michael Nyman - string arrangements
- Del Palmer - bass guitar, percussion, rhythm guitar, engineer, Fairlight CMI percussion, mixing
- Justin Pearson - cello
- Dimitar Penev - arranger
- Yanka Rupkina - solo vocalist
- John Sheahan - fiddle
- Davy Spillane - whistle, uilleann pipes
- Alan Stivell - Celtic harp, backing vocals
- Trio Bulgarka - vocals
- Eberhard Weber - double bass
- Bill Whelan - arranger
- Jonathan Williams - cello
- Balanescu Quartet - strings
- Haydn Bendall - engineer
- Andrew Boland - engineer
- Paul Gomazel - engineer
- Kevin Killen - engineer, mixing
- Tom Leader - assistant engineer
- John Grimes - assistant engineer
- Ian Cooper - cutting engineer
Notes
Released: 16 October 1989
Recorded: 1987–1989 Studio Wickham Farm Home Studio (Welling, England) and Windmill Lane Studios
Genre: Art rock, baroque pop, progressive pop
Length: 45:48
Label - EMI Records
