Director's Cut
by Kate Bush
Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 22 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 22
  3. Negative: 0 out of 22
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  1. American Songwriter
    May 31, 2011
    60
    None of these cropped and re-imagined takes are drastic enough to add huge insights into Bush's output as they do her finicky outlook on her own work. Work that is, generally, great in any context.
  2. Mojo
    May 18, 2011
    60
    There are few moments where Director's Cut offers anything close to a bold deconstruction. [Jun 2011, p.95]
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  3. Slant Magazine
    May 18, 2011
    60
    The reinterpretations offer interesting what-if scenarios, tweaking and altering familiar material, but inevitably reveal more about Bush's fussiness over her own legacy than anything else.
  5. Sputnikmusic
    Jun 14, 2011
    60
    If you've heard the albums it's drawing its material from, you've already got all of those secrets figured out. Ultimately, that renders this album as a novelty of sorts, a release that should only have a footnote in the story of her career rather than its own chapter.

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8.1

Universal acclaim- based on 21 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 21
  3. Negative: 0 out of 21
  1. rjmacready
    Dec 26, 2020
    7
    So...let me see if I've got this straight.

    Kate Bush, my favourite female vocalist of all time, decided to re-record elements of roughly    So...let me see if I've got this straight.

    Kate Bush, my favourite female vocalist of all time, decided to re-record elements of roughly half the tracks from two of her weaker albums, The Sensual World and The Red Shoes, and jam them together and call it a new album. And, to my ears at least...didn't do anything especially new or exciting with said tracks the SECOND time 'round. (Okay, so one or two tracks have possibly been improved, but they were far from my favourites in the first place. Though the new version of "Rubberband Girl" is just straight-up bloody awful!)

    I'm all for artists indulging themselves, and no doubt some fans ate this one up. I'm gonna file it under "highly inessential" and probably pull it off the shelf once every three years at best, sadly.    … Full Review »
  2. katebush
    Aug 31, 2019
    10
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  3. perUmbram
    Oct 29, 2013
    9
    Stunning. Gives a new meaning to the phrase 'older and wiser'. Former soprano, now a dashing contralto, Kate Bush takes her old numbers into aStunning. Gives a new meaning to the phrase 'older and wiser'. Former soprano, now a dashing contralto, Kate Bush takes her old numbers into a more present-day, streched-out and more subdued approach which sounds both contemporary and timeless. Standouts are 'Flower of the Mountain (with James Joyce's text)', 'Song of Solomon' and the ballads 'This Woman's Work' and 'Moments of Pleasure'.… Full Review »
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