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Studio album by Kate Bush
Released 16 September 1985
Recorded November 1983 – June 1985
Studios
Wickham Farm Home Studio (Welling, England)
Windmill Lane (Dublin)
Abbey Road (London)[a]
Genres
Art popprogressive popnew wave[1]art rockprogressive rock[2]sophisti-pop[3]
Length 47:33
Label EMI
Producer Kate Bush
Kate Bush chronology
Kate Bush
(1984) Hounds of Love
(1985) The Whole Story
(1986)
Hounds of Love is the fifth studio album by the English musician Kate Bush, released on 16 September 1985 by EMI Records.[5] It was a commercial and artistic success and marked a return to the public eye for Bush after the relatively low sales of her previous album, 1982`s The Dreaming. The album`s lead single, `Running Up That Hill`, became Bush`s biggest hit, initially peaking at no. 3 upon its original 1985 release but later giving Bush her second UK number-one single in June 2022. The album`s first side produced three further singles, `Cloudbusting`, `Hounds of Love`, and `The Big Sky`, all of which reached the UK Top 40. The second side, subtitled The Ninth Wave, forms a conceptual suite about a woman drifting alone in the sea at night.

Considered to be Bush`s magnum opus, Hounds of Love received critical acclaim and often ranks among the greatest albums of all time.[6] It was Bush`s second album to top the UK Albums Chart and her first to reach the top 40 on the US Billboard 200. Hounds of Love is Bush`s best-selling studio album,[7] having been certified double platinum for 600,000 sales in the UK,[8] and by 1998 it had sold 1.1 million copies worldwide.[9] The album was nominated at the 1986 Brit Awards for Best British Album, at which Bush was also nominated for Best British Female and Best British Single for `Running Up That Hill`.

In 2022, the album re-entered various charts, including reaching number one on the Billboard Top Alternative Albums, due to the appearance of `Running Up That Hill` in the fourth season of the Netflix series Stranger Things.[10]

Background and recording
In the summer of 1983, Bush began laying the groundwork for Hounds of Love at her home recording onto 8-track equipment, using a LinnDrum, Fairlight and piano. Wanting to retain the feel and atmosphere of these early recordings, she had them transferred to 24-track to build the final versions around once recording sessions officially began in November 1983.[11][12] Following these sessions, as well as several recording sessions in Ireland during the spring of 1984, Bush began overdubbing and mixing the album in a process that took a year and the album was finished in June 1985. The recording sessions included use of the Fairlight CMI synthesiser, piano, traditional Irish instruments, and layered vocals. `Waking the Witch` quotes from the chorus of the sea shanty `Blood Red Roses.` The chorale in `Hello Earth` is a segment from the traditional Georgian song `Tsintskaro`, performed by the Richard Hickox Singers.[13] The lines `It`s in the trees! It`s coming!` from the beginning of the title track are sampled from a seance scene from the 1957 British horror film Night of the Demon, spoken by actor Maurice Denham.[14]

The album was produced as two suites, with side one being subtitled Hounds of Love and side two a seven-track concept piece subtitled The Ninth Wave. The album has been described as post-progressive because Bush voices themes of love and womanly passion rather than the usual male viewpoints associated with progressive rock.[15]

The Ninth Wave uses a great many textures to express the story: in the style of Alfred, Lord Tennyson`s Arthurian poems, Bush pursues a vision quest, taking the listener through a death and rebirth. The warmth of familiar sleep is cut by dangerous speed, ice and frigid water, an otherworldly trial and judgment, an out-of-body experience in limbo, and finally a vigorous emergence and grounding in life energy.[15] The disparate musical elements of The Ninth Wave were described by Ron Moy as `classically prog` because of their evident experimentation, and because Bush wholly embraces European music traditions without a trace of American influence.[16]

Influence
Hounds of Love was described as `one of the big inspirations` for Alison Goldfrapp of Goldfrapp.[50] Suede lead singer Brett Anderson said of Hounds of Love: `I love the way it`s a record of two halves, and the second half is a concept record about fear of drowning. It`s an amazing record to listen to really late at night, unsettling and really jarring`.[51] Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac named Hounds of Love as one of her favourite albums.[52] Kele Okereke of Bloc Party said of the title track: `The first time I heard it I was sitting in a reclining sofa. As the beat started I was transported somewhere else. Her voice, the imagery, the huge drum sound: it seemed to capture everything for me. As a songwriter you`re constantly chasing that feeling`.[53]

Track listing
All tracks are written by Kate Bush, except where noted.

Side one: Hounds of Love
No. Title Length
1. `Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)` 5:03
2. `Hounds of Love` 3:02
3. `The Big Sky` 4:41
4. `Mother Stands for Comfort` 3:07
5. `Cloudbusting` 5:10
Total length: 21:03
Side two: The Ninth Wave
No. Title Writer(s) Length
6. `And Dream of Sheep` 2:45
7. `Under Ice` 2:21
8. `Waking the Witch` 4:18
9. `Watching You Without Me` 4:06
10. `Jig of Life` 4:04
11. `Hello Earth`
K. BushTraditional
6:13
12. `The Morning Fog` 2:34
Total length: 26:21

Notes:

`Hounds of Love` contains a sample of Maurice Denham`s voice from Jacques Tourneur`s horror film Night of the Demon (1957).
`Hello Earth` contains an interpolation of the Georgian folk song `Tsintskaro` (`წინწყარო`), as performed by the Richard Hickox Singers.
The original 1985 cassette release included the 12″ single version of `Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)` at the end of side one.
The 2011 Fish People re-release and the 2018 remastered album substitute the `Special Single Mix` version of `The Big Sky`, rather than the original album version.
Personnel
Credits are adapted from the Hounds of Love liner notes.[54]

Kate Bush – vocals, Fairlight synthesizer, Yamaha CS-80, acoustic piano, keyboards
Kevin McAlea – synthesizer sequencing (8), synthesizers (12)
Alan Murphy – guitars (1, 3, 8)
John Williams – guitars (12)
Dónal Lunny – bouzouki (6, 10, 11), bodhrán (10)
Del Palmer – LinnDrum programming, bass guitar (1, 10, 12), handclaps (3), backing vocals (5), Fairlight bass (8)
Martin Glover – bass guitar (3)
Eberhard Weber – double bass (4, 11)
Danny Thompson – double bass (9)
Stuart Elliott – drums (1, 2, 4, 5, 9–11)
Charlie Morgan – drums (2, 3, 5, 8, 10), handclaps (3)
Morris Pert – percussion (3)
Paddy Bush[b] – balalaika (1), didgeridoo (3), backing vocals (5), harmony vocals (7), fujara (12), violins (12)
Jonathan Williams – cello (2)
John Sheahan – whistles (6, 10), fiddles (10)
Liam O`Flynn – Uilleann pipes (10, 11)
Michael Kamen – orchestral arrangements
Bill Whelan – Irish arrangements
The Medici Sextet – strings (5)
Dave Lawson – string arrangements (5)
Brian Bath – backing vocals (5), guitars (11)
John Carder Bush – backing vocals (5), narration (10)
The Richard Hickox Singers – choir (11)
Richard Hickox – choir master (11)
Michael Berkeley – vocal arrangements (11)
Production
Kate Bush – producer
Brian Tench – engineer, mixing (1, 3, 5–12)
Del Palmer – engineer
Haydn Bendall – engineer
Paul Hardiman – engineer
Nigel Walker – engineer
James Guthrie – engineer
Bill Somerville-Large – engineer at Windmill Lane Studios
Pearce Dunne – assistant engineer
Julian Mendelsohn – mixing (2, 4)
Ian Cooper – cutting engineer
Chris Blair – digital remastering
Photography for the sleeve was by Kate`s brother, John Carder Bush, and the sleeve design was by Bill Smith Studio and Kate Bush.