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Kate Bush finds making an album “extremely stressful”
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 6 May 2011
Kate Bush has told Radio 4 that she’s written songs for a new album, but that she does not know when that record will be released, admitting she’s frustrated it takes her so long to make an album, and that she finds the process “extremely stressful”. Her last long player, ‘Aerial’, was released in 2005.
She told ‘Front Row’: “It’s very frustrating the albums take as long as they do. I wish there weren’t such big gaps between them … Even if I was able to talk about it [the new album] now, it might completely change in a few weeks and so would no longer be relevant”.
Asked if the delays were due to her being a perfectionist, she said: “I don’t think I am. People have said this, but I don’t think I really want anything to be perfect. I think it’s important that things are flawed. That’s what makes a piece of art interesting sometimes – the bit that’s wrong or the mistake you’ve made that’s led onto an idea you wouldn’t have had otherwise”.
Listen to the full ‘Front Row’ interview here.
As previously reported, Bush will release a collection of reworked songs from her earlier albums, entitled ‘Director’s Cut’, on 16 May via her own Fish People label, in conjunction with EMI.
