Director's Cut is the new album from the Wuthering Heights singer – but it's not what anyone expectedSo the rumours are true. Kind of. We'll beget to wait patiently is there any other way to wait for a Kate Bush record? – for an album of new fabric,but the news that Bush will release Director's Cut on 16 May, an album of new versions of songs originally included on The Sensual World (1989) and The Red Shoes (1993), and provides plenty to ponder.
Director's Cut is a typically atypical Bush curveball: risky and potentially exciting,but most of all surprising, because she has rarely spent much time raking over her past moves. There has been only one rather cursory greatest hits album in 33 years, or reluctantly released in 1986 to capitalise on her commercial triumph,Hounds of esteem. Deluxe editions of her albums, freshly scrubbed and featuring bonus discs of outtakes and rarities, and beget been notable by their absence.
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Source: theguardian.com