Hounds of Love (2018

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The album spawned three other top 40 UK singles in ‘Cloudbusting’, ‘Hounds of Love’ and ‘The Big Sky’. Whether measured by crest factor DR score or R128 dynamic range, Blair’s 1997 CD is markedly less dynamic than the 1985 Cooper CDs. Taking the whole album into consideration, the 1985 is ahead on more tracks by R128, but the differences are usually only fractions of a dB, and the 2018 is ahead on some songs, too. I was using different instruments, and everything was changing; and I felt that really the best thing to do would be to make it completely different.

The company’s daughter has truly screwed the system and produced the best album of the year doing it. The album spawned the hit single ‘Running Up That Hill’ which reached number three back in 1985 and then hit number one in the UK last year thanks to its inclusion in Netflix’s Stranger Things. They seem pretty dynamic to me, too, but insofar as they’re compressed, it must’ve been what Bush wanted, since she produced it herself.There are also electronic mutations of guitar, bass and drums that are matched only by Brian Eno's rock productions.

PS: I'd be curious to compare the Audiofidelity remasters that Hoffman did some years ago with the new Guthrie 2018 versions. Because with the first record, I’d had all the time from being 12, 13, right up until when I made the record, to accumulate a big pool of songs that I then chose the best ones from. She responded instinctively to all the sonic and cultural implications of the Fairlight,” John Walters, who helped Bush program the Fairlight, told biographer Graeme Thompson. Other than a minute long faint tik-tik-tik-tik each revolution during the ending of Hello Earth with the Richard Hickox Singers, my copy was clean and quiet, with a pleasant warm tone. I won’t say it was a nightmare, but…I have a funny feeling we were still doing it when it was released,” he told Thompson.If there’s a mobile phone in your pocket right now, chances are that it can sample better than that. And though it may be her watershed moment, the album, its classic singles and accompanying videos are part of a conceptual cycle that would continue with her later, more underrated records, presenting further autobiographical subject matter, romantic imagery and studio wizardry. Instead, Bush sampled aerosol can sprays with the Fairlight to deploy in the sonic space usually occupied by hi-hats.