Hounds Of Love By Kate Bush Apr 2026

If you’ve never listened to The Ninth Wave in one sitting, start to finish, in the dark with headphones… do it tonight. You’ll understand.

A masterpiece that gave us: 🏔 Running Up That Hill ☁️ Cloudbusting 🐺 That primal title track 🌊 The Ninth Wave (side two perfection)

🐺 Have you run with the Hounds of Love yet? 🌊 Or are you still floating in The Ninth Wave ?

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The album explores vulnerability, survival, and the terror of opening your heart, all wrapped in Fairlight CMI textures, Irish folk elements, and Bush’s soaring, shape-shifting vocals.

In 1985, Kate Bush was told that a concept album split into two halves—one dealing with fear of love, the other with drowning in the cold sea at night—was commercial suicide.

Whether it’s the raw fear of “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God),” the haunting beauty of “Cloudbusting,” or the sheer theatricality of “Waking the Witch,” this record remains timeless, fearless, and deeply human. hounds of love by kate bush

Decades later, its influence echoes through artists like Florence Welch, Björk, St. Vincent, and Tori Amos.

40 years later, nothing sounds like it. Still ahead of its time. Still haunting. Still genius.

Some albums feel like a dream you never want to wake from. Hounds of Love is exactly that. If you’ve never listened to The Ninth Wave

From the galloping, cinematic rush of the title track to the breathtaking nine-part suite The Ninth Wave , Kate Bush didn’t just make an album—she built an entire emotional universe.

Instead, Hounds of Love became her critical and commercial breakthrough.

1985: Kate Bush releases Hounds of Love . 🌊 Or are you still floating in The Ninth Wave

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