Kate Bush : Wow
On November 13, 1978 Kate Bush released Lionheart, her sophomore album and one that usually falls on the bottom of the list of must-have Kate Bush releases.
"It's not the way I would've done it," she told Mojo. "Because with the first record, I'd had all the time from being 12, 13, right up until I made the record to accumulate a big pool of songs that I then chose the best ones from. The second record was made very quickly after the first. I just didn't like it. That was a really big turning point."
It's true the record company rushed Bush to release the album just nine months after The Kick Inside. Perhaps they thought an artist eccentric enough to photographed in an attic wearing a lion costume might flake out before they cashed in on her obvious talent. The album was certainly buoyed by the U.K. Top 20 hit "Wow", apparently written about the music business:
From Stereogum :
Whimsy is an inextricable part of Kate Bush's DNA, particularly on her romantic early LP trilogy. But where The Kick Inside married those whimsical impulses to inventive song structures and poetry, Lionheart is simply whimsy overload. The progressive edge of Bush's debut was softened and smoothed, replaced by loads of grand piano and textural atmosphere. Stunning lead single "Wow" demonstrates that Bush hadn't lost her grip entirely, but Lionheart feels slight compared to the rest of her catalogue: Tracks like "In Search of Peter Pan" and "Kashka from Baghdad" are tiring and monochromatic, lacking the sonic and lyrical focus Bush would master soon enough.
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