Director's Cut (Album)

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Director's Cut
Studio album by Kate Bush

Publication
(s)

November 18, 2011

Label (s) Fish People / EMI

Genre (s)

pop music

Title (number)

11

running time

57:04 min

production

Kate Bush

chronology
Aerial ( 2005 ) Director's Cut 50 Words for Snow ( 2011 )

Director's Cut is the ninth studio album by the English singer and composer Kate Bush . It appeared as well as the follow-up work 50 Words for Snow in 2011. The album contains eleven pieces, all of which are reworking of titles from Bush's earlier albums The Sensual World (1989) and The Red Shoes (1993). Director's Cut was released under Kate Bush's own music label Fish People . The only single release is the title Deeper Understanding .

production

The eleven tracks on the album have been reworked for the production of Director's Cut and some have been completely re-recorded. The songs are usually longer than in their original versions. Bush justified her motivation for the new recording with the fact that she was not satisfied with her albums from 1989 and 1993 shortly after they were released and especially not with the production sound of "The Red Shoes".

The Bulgarian band Trio Bulgarka provides vocals on several tracks on the album . Bush's son Albert McIntosh is also part of the vocals in titles, as is the case with the follow-up album "50 Words for Snow", which was released in the same year. Here he speaks the computer voice on "Deeper Understanding" and sings on other pieces.

Drummer Steve Gadd plays completely rearranged rhythm parts on "Director's Cut".

Track list

  1. Flower of the Mountain - 5:15
  2. Song of Solomon - 4:45
  3. Lily - 4:05
  4. Deeper Understanding - 6:33
  5. The Red Shoes - 4:58
  6. This Woman's Work - 6:30
  7. Moments of Pleasure - 6:32
  8. Never Be Mine - 5:05
  9. Top of the City - 4:24
  10. And so Is Love - 4:21
  11. Rubberband Girl - 4:37

reception

The music magazine Rolling Stone expressed itself critically and described the album as Kate Bush's "private pleasure", which would not justify publication. Anyone who owned the original albums would receive no added value. Positive reviews emphasized that by listening to it several times, the pieces on the album would come into their own better than in their original recordings.

The critics' platform Metacritic awarded a Metascore of 80 out of 100 points and a user rating of 7.8 out of 10 points.

Others

The first track of the album, Flower of the Mountain , cannot be found under this title on either of the two source albums. It is the title track of the album The Sensual World , which Kate Bush wanted to record in 1989 with excerpts from the writer James Joyce . Since the singer did not receive permission for this from Joyce's heirs at the time, she used her own text. On the occasion of the resumption and rearrangement of the title, however, the same gave a release, so that Bush sang Joyce's text.

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  2. ↑ guardian.co.uk . Retrieved January 9, 2012.
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  5. ^ Songfacts.com , accessed January 10, 2012.
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  8. ^ Rollingstone.de , accessed on January 10, 2012.
  9. ↑ npr.org , accessed January 10, 2012.
  10. ^ Metacritic.com , accessed January 10, 2012.
  11. ↑ plattentests.de , accessed on January 9, 2012.

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