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Nov 29, 2011100One of the year's most imaginative albums.
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Nov 21, 201188With all seven of the songs clocking in at six to 10 minutes each, Bush takes her time, but the songs aren't built of different parts; it's more like mounting meditations on one theme.
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Nov 21, 2011100Bush is still making music that intrudes and abducts.
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Nov 21, 201190These tracks are sparse but airtight, haunting but unrelentingly gorgeous, both logical successors to the stunning second half of Aerial and completely unlike anything she's done.
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Nov 21, 2011100The result is a lush, immersive work which is sonically more homogeneous than her earlier albums.
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Nov 21, 201190While looking for 50 Words For Snow, she has found 50 other original ways to express herself effortlessly, creating another intriguing piece of work.
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Nov 21, 20119050 Words for Snow is undoubtedly whimsical, but it's played and arranged so exquisitely that even the most po-faced should be able to acknowledge the scale of its achievement.
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Nov 21, 2011100To the relief of anyone who carries a torch for the reclusive genius, it's a beauty.
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Nov 21, 201185Her best music, this album included, has the effect of putting one in the kind of treasured, child-like space--not so much innocent as open to imagination--that never gets old.
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Nov 17, 201191It's all gorgeous.
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Nov 17, 201110050 Words for Snow is extraordinary business as usual for Bush, meaning it's packed with the kind of ideas you can't imagine anyone else in rock having.
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Nov 16, 201190Whatever the case, 50 Words...demands to be listened to as a whole.
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Nov 15, 201185It's a linguistic lesson you never asked for, or even wanted, but also one you'll never forget.
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Nov 15, 201190It's absorbing and enchanting without having to resort to formulaic song structures, pop thrills or radio-friendly catchiness.
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Nov 14, 201190She's brilliant, sometimes inspired, and this tenth studio album finds her gifts undiminished.