Kate Bush gave a rare interview and teased the prospect of new music.
Talking to you BBC Radio 4's Today Programme on Friday morning (October 25) the pop icon said she has ideas and desires to start a new album. Bush has released her latest studio album 50 words about snow in 2011.
When asked if he's working on new material at the moment, Bush said: “Not at the moment, but I've been caught doing a lot of archival work over the last few years, redesigning our website, putting together a lyric book.
“And I'm very keen to start working on a new album when I've finished it. I have a lot of ideas and I'm really looking forward to getting back into this creative space, it's been a long time coming.”
When host Emma Barnett asked if it was a hope he had for a while, Bush replied: “Yes, it is, really. In detail [in] In the last year, I really felt ready to start doing something new.”
Bush was appearing on the program to promote a new short film she created titled Little Sriuwhich is soundtracked by her 2011 song “Snowflake.” The four-minute short film, which you can watch below, was created by Bush and an illustrator to help raise awareness and money for the charity Child of warwhich supports youth involved in conflict.
Speaking about the film, Bush said she “started working on it a few years ago, not long after the war broke out in Ukraine, and I think it was such a shock to all of us.”
“It was such a long period of peace that we all lived. And I just felt like I wanted to do a little cartoon that would have a little girl in it initially. It was really the idea of children caught up in the war. I wanted to draw attention to how horrible it is for children.
“And so I came up with this idea for a script and I felt that, actually, people would show more empathy towards a creature than a human. That's how I came up with the idea of it being a bit perceptive.”
The British artist hit it big in the late 1970s and her hits include “Hounds of Love,” “Babooshka” and “Wuthering Heights.” In 1980, she became the first solo British artist to reach the top UK Albums Charts with her third album Never Forever. Bush's creative work in recent decades has been sporadic, and in 2014 she shocked the music world when she announced her return to the stage for a London residency, her first live performances in decades.
In 2022, Bush's 1985 single “Running Up That Hill” featured prominently in Netflix's fourth season Stranger Things and saw a flurry of interest and streams in her back catalog. The song peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, improving on its No. 30 position on its initial release, and topped the UK Singles Chart for three weeks to give Bush her second No. 1 single. In 2023, the song surpassed 1 billion streams on Spotify.
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