Kate bush deeper understanding12/30/2023 Yet, musically, it’s rather more cosmetic. The Sensual World’s title-track, now re-named Flower of the Mountain and borrowing Molly Bloom’s soliloquy from James Joyce’s novel Ulysses as Bush intended (she was originally denied permission), is another major alteration. Rubberband Girl, which in context sounds like a knees-up down her local boozer, comes over like the work of a totally different band (weirdly, that band is now The Rolling Stones). Minus the choc-box orchestra (plus subtly altered lyrics), the rest of Moments of Pleasure emerges into the light, shaded by a solemn choir. Gone are the gated drums, the keyboard presets, the Synclavier washes in comes a softer, golden glow. All the vocals and drums on Director’s Cut – totalling four tracks from 1989’s The Sensual World, seven from 1993’s The Red Shoes – are new if such a term existed, you could say the overall execution has been to ‘de-80s-fy’ the originals. She’s had the urge to tinker before, sprucing up Wuthering Heights for her 1986 greatest hits, The Whole Story. The problem is less that Bush’s new album consists of old songs than the fact she’s only released one album of new ones in 18 years. A bonus two-minute coda of Talk Talk-style folk-jazz floatiness extends the mood of blissful angst. Instead, it’s just the song’s computer voice, which now resembles 2001: A Space Odyssey’s HAL 9000 rather than a demo on a kid’s Casio. It’s not as if Bush’s own vocal was altered. But as Bon Iver and Sufjan Stevens have already shown, Auto-Tune – a pitch-shifting tool typically used to mask defects – can also be used for beauty. How dare she play with our memories? How dare she use Auto-Tune on the chorus vocal? "Butchered" and "almost unforgivable" cried the fansites. If this video is any indication, perhaps the album’s title means a bit more than song revisionism.When Deeper Understanding emerged as the first evidence of Kate Bush’s new album of revisions, the instant reaction was surprise tinged with anger. It’s a Kate Bush video through and through cinematic, transfixing, and a beautiful oddity. Her previous album, Aerial, had only one video, King of the Mountain, and sadly, it didn’t measure up to the precedent she’d set. From the cinematic ∼loudbusting to the powerful tearjerker, This Woman’s Work - a Kate Bush video is an event. Bush is the video’s director, so if the new draft of the song was crafted specifically around this video concept it would make sense.Įver the perfectionist, Bush has been directing her own videos since early on and with them she’s produced some stunning visions. The vocal modification seems more appropriate, audio glitching is tied to an important visual cue, and the extended break down is paced to the video’s climax. Strange audio elements of the single now make complete sense as the events unfold. What’s perhaps most shocking about the video, is that the new version of ∽eeper Understanding plays out like it was made specifically for the purpose of this video. No spoilers, but it involves Noel Fielding of The Mighty Boosh. When the family finally steps in to disable the sinister program, Coltrane turns on them and in his withdrawal things get very dark and strange. The program spouts hallucinogenic wave forms that cast Coltrane into a state of euphoria. In the video, Voice Console is a pair of feminine lips on a screen (Bush’s son Albert) with an eerie inhuman blackness behind them think no teeth. Robbie Coltrane, best known for his work in Harry Potter as Hagrid, plays the computer junkie who leaves behind his wife and two sons to escape with the program. The video adapts the song’s core plot a person becoming addicted to a program called Voice Console deeply, emotionally attaching themselves to it to the point of separation with friends and family. However, now that the video for ∽eeper Understanding has been released, the picture has become much clearer. The drastic changes to the track are unusual at best, including heavy vocal modification and a perplexing, low-key breakdown that extends the song by two minutes. The first single, ∽eeper Understanding, has been called prophetic in its topic of computer addiction and was a natural choice for the first track to be released from this project. The album is billed as an 11 track selection of fully-revised songs from her now classic albums The Sensual World and The Red Shoes released in ’89 and ’93 respectively. The acclaimed singer-songwriter’s next LP, Director’s Cut, hits stores May 16th via EMI.Įarlier this month, when Kate Bush released the first single off her new album, Director’s Cut, many fans didn’t know what to think. Cluster 1‘s Cap Blackard examines Kate Bush’s new video for “Deeper Understanding”.
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