Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow

Guardian“Packed with the kind of ideas you can't imagine anyone else having...” Taking notions that look entirely daft on paper and rendering them into astonishing music is very much Bush's signature move...

The Quietus“Gets away with things that would be unforgivable elsewhere...” 50 Words for Snow is undoubtedly whimsical, but it's played and arranged so exquisitely that even the most po-faced should be able to acknowledge the scale of its achievement...

The Independent“It's a beauty...” It's sound is mimetic of the white stuff: specifically the kind of snow that arrives unannounced and settles gently in the night, rather than a dramatic, howling blizzard...

The A.V. Club“The least immediately accessible she's ever made...” While the album is as icy as its title implies, there’s a dormant warmth to 50 Words that compensates for its lack of hooks...

MusicOMH“A surprisingly accessible work...” It’s absorbing and enchanting without having to resort to formulaic song structures, pop thrills or radio-friendly catchiness...

Drowned In Sound“At peak she is incomparable...” 50 Words for Snow is artic and hoare frost and robin red breast, sleepy snowscapes and death on the mountain, drifts in the Home Counties and gales through Alaska...

Pitchfork“There's an appealing creepiness that runs through this album...” Her best music, this album included, has the effect of putting one in the kind of treasured, child-like space-- not so much innocent as open to imagination-- that never gets old...

Clash Music“A sixty-five-minute art-pop opus...” She’s brilliant, sometimes inspired, and this tenth studio album finds her gifts undiminished...

allmusic“The most spacious, sparsely-recorded album in her catalogue...” It shares sheer ambition with Scott Walker's The Drift and PJ Harvey's Let England Shake but sounds like neither; Bush's album is equally startling because its will toward the mysterious and elliptical is balanced by its beguiling accessibility...