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Director's Cut [Deluxe Edition] by Kate Bush (CD, 2011)

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A new version of "Deeper Understanding" will be released as a single in April. But as Bon Iver and Sufjan Stevens have already shown, Auto-Tunea pitch-shifting tool typically used to mask defectscan also be used for beauty.

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Noble & Brite
UPC
5099902777320
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Artist
Kate Bush
Format
CD
Release Year
2011
Release Title
Director's Cut [Deluxe Edition]
Genre
Alternative, Rock
Run Time
157 mins 56 seconds

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During her early career, Kate Bush released albums regularly despite her reputation as a perfectionist in the studio. Her first five were released within seven years. After The Hounds of Love in 1985, however, the breaks between got longer: The Sensual World appeared in 1989 and The Red Shoes in 1993. Then, nothing before Aerial, a double album issued in 2005. It's taken six more years to get The Director's Cut, an album whose material isn't new, though its presentation is. Four of this set's 11 tracks first appeared on The Sensual World, while the other seven come from The Red Shoes. Bush's reasons for re-recording these songs is a mystery. She does have her own world-class recording studio, and given the sounds here, she's kept up with technology. Some of these songs are merely tweaked, and pleasantly so, while others are radically altered. The two most glaring examples are "Flower of the Mountain" (previously known as "The Sensual World") and "This Woman's Work." The former intended to use Molly Bloom's soliloquy from James Joyce's novel Ulysses as its lyric; Bush was refused permission by his estate. That decision was eventually reversed; hence she re-recorded the originally intended lyrics. And while the arrangement is similar, there are added layers of synth and percussion. Her voice is absent the wails and hiccupy gasps of her youthful incarnation. These have been replaced by somewhat huskier, even more luxuriant and elegant tones. On the latter song, the arrangement of a full band and Michael Nyman's strings are replaced by a sparse, reverbed electric piano which pans between speakers. This skeletal arrangement frames Bush's more prominent vocal which has grown into these lyrics and inhabits them in full: their regrets, disappointments, and heartbreaks with real acceptance. She lets that voice rip on "Lilly," supported by a tougher, punchier bassline, skittering guitar efx, and a hypnotic drum loop. Bush's son Bertie makes an appearance as the voice of the computer (with Auto-Tune) on "Deeper Understanding." On "RubberBand Girl," Bush pays homage to the Rolling Stones' opening riff from "Street Fighting Man" in all its garagey glory (which one suspects was always there and has now been uncovered). The experience of The Director's Cut, encountering all this familiar material in its new dressing, is more than occasionally unsettling, but simultaneously, it is deeply engaging and satisfying. ~ Thom Jurek
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Spin (p.71) - "She strips down and stretches out the original arrangements into orgasmic psych-folk fantasias." Entertainment Weekly (p.81) - "[It's] gorgeous: She reclaims 'This Woman's Work'..." -- Grade: B+ The Wire (p.44) - "[T]here's the sense that she is working out these songs, testing them, possibly with a future purpose in mind....An unusual and unexpected triumph."
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Number of Audio Channels
Stereo
Number of discs
3

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item 1 KATE BUSH - DIRECTOR'S CUT (2011) COLLECTOR'S EDITION SEALED 3CD
AU $33.21
+AU $32.82 postage
item 2 Directors Cut
AU $80.06
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item 3 Kate Bush ‎CD Director's Cut / Emi Fish People ‎FPCDX001 Sealed
AU $57.05
+AU $23.62 postage
item 4 KATE BUSH "DIRECTOR'S CUT (COLLECTOR'S EDT.)" 3 CD NEW!
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item 1 KATE BUSH - DIRECTOR'S CUT (2011) COLLECTOR'S EDITION SEALED 3CD

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item 3 Kate Bush ‎CD Director's Cut / Emi Fish People ‎FPCDX001 Sealed

item 4 KATE BUSH "DIRECTOR'S CUT (COLLECTOR'S EDT.)" 3 CD NEW!

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