'Wild Man': From Kate Bush's '50 Words Of Snow' (VIDEO)

The ethereal British artist Kate Bush hasn't produced anything new since 2007, when she wrote a single song, "Lyra," for "The Golden Compass" movie (we're not counting Bush's recycling of her own work in this year's Director's Cut). So today is momentous for admirers of Bush rock. The first track off her upcoming 50 Words Of Snow is circulating ahead of its digital release tomorrow. The track, called "Wild Man," is classic Bush, all ghostly orchestration and pinched vocals, and the album itself is an intriguing triumphant return: Elton John, and, oddly, comedian Stephen Fry, appear on several tracks. You can listen to the full seven-minute album version of "Wild Man" at the disco naivete tumblr, or to the BBC radio edit below. 50 Words Of Snow is due out Nov. 21.

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(via Some Kind Of Awesome)

Comments

[Proud Bay Man]

01:36 AM on 10/20/2011

She is brilliant. Period.

[triplettam]

11:46 AM on 11/02/2011

Period. Actually beyond brilliant. The rest of us just try and keep up.

[Proud Bay Man]

09:39 PM on 11/02/2011

I have 50 Words on preorder. Can't wait!

[chrysostomos]

10:01 PM on 10/16/2011

I love Hammer Horror of off Lionheart.

[CinMI]

09:31 AM on 10/13/2011

Running Up That Hill was my first listen to her and I have LOVED her ever since!!
College times for me...

[Yirry Yanya]

02:05 PM on 10/12/2011

#KateBush #WildMan #IsAmazing #ToTheMax #Rare #Evocative #ThoughtProvoking #Gem #Unique #YES #Dreamlike #Epic

[philinburb]

01:46 PM on 10/12/2011

Sounds pretty cool. Can't wait. Hopefully her best LP since The Dreaming.

[Conk]

10:05 AM on 10/12/2011

Can't wait! Her previous CD, forget the name, is superb. Double CD set that has amazing songs.

[GaryNOVA]

08:59 PM on 10/11/2011

She actually looks pretty good for her age. its as if she's made a deal with God and got him to swap someone's place with her.

[chrysostomos]

09:45 PM on 10/16/2011

are you suggesting that she's been running up that treadmill?

[Faye-Valentine]

05:30 PM on 10/11/2011

I love Kate. LOVE LOVE LOVE HER.

[Stilyagi]

11:08 AM on 10/11/2011

Easily one of my favourite artists. Too bad she took a turn for the worse on Hounds, and produced nothing as good since.

[Counterglow]

02:00 AM on 10/11/2011

YES!!!

[justlw]

12:29 AM on 10/11/2011

50 Words *for* Snow. How hard is it to get the album title right?

[Clozure]

10:04 AM on 10/12/2011

That's the problem with relying on spell Czech.

[skialethia]

12:26 AM on 10/11/2011

From "Running up that hill" ..."And if I only could, I'd make a deal with God"...

I was seduced from "hello" and soon after initiated to Kate Bush, and then, mistakenly, I too tried to make a deal with God that love wouldn't end before it began, but he was showing me the end before I jumped into the beginning and the middle and from that moment on I was running up that hill trying to catch up with love and pleading with God and pretending that I didn't see what I saw, and I fell, I fell hopelessly and hard and cried...for what could have been. They were tears for prayers answered, but for the longest time, I thought I was chastised for seeing too much when love is blind, but really it was for running from the truth and settling when I knew I needed SO MUCH MORE.

Kate Bush was part of the magic that showed me the way and the voice that woke me up.

"They that love best their love shall not enjoy." - William Shakespeare "Venus and Adonis"

Be true. To yourself, first.

[longtimegone]

01:51 AM on 10/11/2011

Thanks for this, Skialethia. You were the first person I ever fanned here, the only one whose fanning of me ever meant anything to me. I knew that beneath and behind your passionate defense of the dispossessed there must exist a powerful soul force, but I've not seen it so nakedly expressed before.

[pleasebereasonable]

11:45 PM on 10/10/2011

It's me, oh Kathy, come home now, so cold, let me in at your window,


Anyone remember that one? How many weeks at number one in the UK?

[pahammer]

09:50 AM on 10/13/2011

from Wikipedia:
Wuthering Heights quickly reached number one in the UK Singles Chart, staying there for four weeks, and propelled the singer to fame. The song also was a hit in Australia, taking the top spot during Autumn in 1978 for three weeks. Its release unwittingly pitted Bush against another female vocalist, also charting with her first hit: Debbie Harry with her band Blondie, and their single "Denis." Amid much public discussion about the two singers' merits, Bush came out on top, while Blondie stalled at number two.

"Wuthering Heights" was replaced at No.1 by Brian and Michael's celebration of the then-recently deceased artist L. S. Lowry, "Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs," thus having the number-one slot feature a classic of English literature followed by a tribute to a renowned painter. In reaching number one, Bush became the first woman to write and perform a UK chart-topper. "Wuthering Heights" remains Bush's biggest-selling single in the UK, and was certified gold by the BPI for sales of over half a million.[10] It was the 11th best-selling single of 1978.

[scottjhnsn]

06:45 PM on 10/10/2011

thrilled about this! and the song actually has some haunting familiarity....pre-Red Shoes.

i agree this has been one of the strongest year's in music,if i ever saw one. aside from whom you mentioned we also saw radiohead,beirut,ladytron,feist,lykke li,and next month florence & the machine returns with a new album. and a new artist i am completely enamoured with anna calvi released her debut.

[freddsky]

04:40 PM on 10/10/2011

Oh, to be in love again with Mrs. Bertolozzi! She made that one very snide video about a fellow artist, but I laughed so hard I forgave her. Lovelly, lovelly, lovelly Katie!

[Mirror Girl]

06:53 PM on 10/10/2011

What snide video about a fellow artist??

[freddsky]

09:09 PM on 10/10/2011

The one about the actor who, attempting a stage death, dives too soon, too fast to save himself