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Universal acclaim- based on 96 Ratings
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Positive: 85 out of 96
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Mixed: 3 out of 96
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Negative: 8 out of 96
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Nov 21, 2011Among the best releases this year. Kate Bush is a legend, so no one was expecting something bad, but this album goes beyond expectations, it's not just beautiful music, it's art, it's winter, it's love.
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Nov 21, 2011This is a fantastic album. Gorgeously layered and filled with nuance. My vote for album of the year, unless something great comes out in the next month.
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Nov 21, 2011Wow, a gorgeously layered ode to winter that is the best album I've heard this year. She doesn't over do the vocals which is key here. A pompous vocal performance would
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Nov 22, 2011Gee man.... No words for Kate Bush other than brilliant! Only the two first songs already take your breath away. This is the ultimate winter/snow/season whatever album.
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Dec 1, 2011
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Nov 21, 2011
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Nov 21, 2011Absolutely wonderful! Brilliant music and great storytelling! This is the best album of the year and I dare to say that it is also kate bush's best work. Well done!
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Nov 21, 2011
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Nov 26, 2011Easily the best album I heard this year-the only thing I don't like is somehow bombastic and over dramatic Elton John's guest performance but everything else is pure art of the highest quality possible.
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Nov 21, 2011I was expecting something good, but not THIS good. Quietly ambitious and incredibly beautifulâ
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Nov 21, 2011
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Nov 22, 2011
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Dec 7, 2011Quelle fraicheur et sensualité dans ce disque. Superbes compositions, un touché simpliste au piano, une voix au timbre si particulier. Une Å
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Jan 5, 2012Maybe it is not her most accessible work, but still easy to praise. In other words: you like it or you hate.
I am still in love with the album and her mastery of her genre and her ability to create something that arouses great emotion and imagery, which to the extent that her music creates is rare. Amazing. -
Feb 21, 2012
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Apr 4, 2012What an amazing album! Mysterious and enchanting, melancholy tunes that seem straight out of a 1960's movie soundtrack. The best album of the year, a true CinemaScope gem.
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Oct 29, 2013
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Nov 21, 2013Brilliant, meditative and nuanced only the way Kate Bush can. Is there anyone else that produces new material that are this unique yet accessible. Even her once-brilliant contemporaries David Bowie and Peter Gabriel seem to be re-hashing old stuff these days.
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Jun 11, 2022Sprawling snow erotica with soft layered compositions & ambitious storytelling. There's an eerie soul to her most recent work that pulses like a thawing icicle. Not her best but definitely up there!
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Aug 31, 2019kinda iconic kinda iconickinda iconic kinda iconickinda iconic kinda iconickinda iconic kinda iconickinda iconic kinda iconickinda iconic kinda iconickinda iconic kinda iconic
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Oct 9, 2021Amazing album from Kate. Are we surprised? no, no we are not. She is a legend, a icon and she is the moment. come on now.
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Mar 30, 2023Ogni album di Kate è magico , ogni album ha una sua atmosfera e un suo mondo. Misty vale tutto l'album . Bellissimo.
Awards & Rankings
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MojoJan 10, 2012Sounds miraculously unburdened by its conceptual weight.[Dec. 2011 p. 90]
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Q MagazineDec 15, 2011There is only one real slip - Stephen Fry's mood shattering appearance on the title track. [Dec. 2001 p. 123]
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Dec 8, 2011A remarkably delicate, often meandering (though never purposeless) song cycle revolving around snow, imagination and longing, set to rich, spiraling piano compositions and deep open spaces.