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81 out of 100

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9.3 out of 10

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  • Summary: This double-disc set is the influential singer-songwriter's first album in a dozen years.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 23
  3. Negative: 0 out of 23
  1. Playlouder
    100
    'Aerial' towers over the vast majority of even this year's embarrassment of riches.
  2. Mojo
    100
    Kate Bush is the greatest living British artist in song and this is her masterpiece. [Dec 2005, p.96]
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  3. Uncut
    60
    A madly ambitious, darkly despondent and goofily exuberant grand folly of a record. [Album of the Month, Dec 2005, p.98]
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 178 out of 191
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 191
  3. Negative: 10 out of 191
  1. TakisS
    10
    A real experimental masterpiece! Only Kate can make songs like Aerial Prologue or Prelude in that Age. The album is the successor of Hounds of Love! A masterpiece!… Expand
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  2. JamesT
    5
    Hi, I am a very big Kate Bush fan but I am very disappointed with Aerial. You can probably tell that i am a musician / engineer. So much of it is quite flat and unadventurous. Just put on Hounds of Love and The Sensual World and there is no comparison in the songs and the sound. Aerial sounds quite one dimensional like a lot of albums these days. There is very little depth and space in the sound. I blame a lot of this on computers and modern digital technology used on so many albums these days. To be honest I don't think Kate has the time and energy to make albums like Hounds of Love or The Sensual World anymore. These are extremely ambitious albums which take over your life during the recording process. I think the guitar contributions are extremely boring,its like Dire Straits or Sade in places. After all these years I was expecting something exceptional but I too am disappointed. I still think Kate is brilliant but I just end up playing the older albums again with the occasional play of Aerial.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. JacksonB
    3
    This sounds like it was made in 1991.
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