Going away is good.......

......but coming back is better.

Just got home after a few days seeing friends and family. It was nice to get a birthday shared with them and I'm just home and unpacked. Strange to find myself coming straight here to tell you all - seems The Towers is well and truly back in action. That's quite a nice thought.

To add to the posts for The Young Golds and David Sylvian which seemed to win the "what do you lot seem interested in" post I've now simply GOT to do a post for the new Kate Bush album "Aerial".

Traveling down on the train last week I heard the album right through for the first time as I watched the sun break the horizon. This is a beautiful thing in it's own right but as you may know (if you have it yet) the album deals with this very thing as part of it's subject matter. I've never had such a synergy of sound and vision before - her words and music were drawing the scene that my eyes could see. Quite the most wonderful musical experience I've had for many, many years......

The album is wonderfully, ridiculously out of time. It just seems to sit in it's own bubble, seemingly without a single nod to anything contemporary. In doing so it sounds both like a natural followup work which could have easily been released 12 years ago and something which stands out against, yet works apart from, the music around now.

Who else could make a double album, part concept, featuring a song reciting PI to 112 places which works, an incredibly erotic track based around a washing machine, Rolf Harris as painter as God and singing blackbirds telling jokes that make Kate laugh.

There's been a lot of hype for this, mostly due to the time it's taken to record. There's something about Kate that excites and intrigues in equal measures.

Whichever of the two camps your interest lies in, buy this and fall in love all over again.

Genius is back behind the piano again like she's never been away.