50 Words for Snow

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50 Words for Snow
Studio album by Kate Bush

Publication
(s)

November 18, 2011

Label (s) Fish People / Noble & Brite Ltd.

Genre (s)

Art rock

Title (number)

7th

running time

65:29 min

production

Kate Bush

chronology
Director's Cut
( 2011 ) 		50 Words for Snow -

50 Words for Snow is the ninth studio album by the English singer and composer Kate Bush . The album contains seven tracks and was released in 2011 under Kate Bush's own record label Fish People . 50 Words for Snow can be classified as a concept album whose basic winter theme combines various stories about snow.

occupation

All of the tracks on the album were written by Kate Bush. Production was also in her hands. Various guest musicians are gathered on 50 Words for Snow . The first track, Snowflake , is sung in first voice by Kate Bush's 12-year-old son Albert McIntosh, accompanied by Kate Bush. Steve Gadd contributes the drum recordings on all pieces. The song Snowed In at Wheeler Street is a duet with Elton John , with whom Bush has previously worked.

The title track 50 Words for Snow is a musical recitation of synonyms for the word snow, performed by the English actor Stephen Fry .

Track list

  1. Snowflake - 9:48
  2. Lake Tahoe - 11:08 am
  3. Misty - 13:32
  4. Wild Man - 7:17
  5. Snowed In at Wheeler Street - 8:05 am
  6. 50 Words for Snow - 8:31
  7. Among Angels - 6:49

reception

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung presented 50 Words for Snow when it appeared as CD of the week. There it was praised as a "deep" and "intelligent" concept album. The music magazine Rolling Stone commented on the fact that the songs on the album are seven to thirteen minutes long and are sparingly rhythmic with the claim that the songs on 50 Words for Snow are none at all. The relatively catchy duet with Elton John, which is presented here as evidence for the thesis that Kate Bush is best with this album, is criticized if she strays far from the conventions of pop music.

swell

  1. ↑ Deutschlandradio , accessed on December 23, 2011.
  2. ↑ Culture Week ( Memento of November 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 23, 2011.
  3. ↑ web.eltonjohn.com ( memento of July 19, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on December 23, 2011.
  4. ↑ welt.de , accessed on August 10, 2012.
  5. ↑ faz.net , accessed December 23, 2011.
  6. ^ Rolling Stone , accessed December 23, 2011.

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