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Daily Telegraph
50 Words for Snow should be heard standing alone at icy window panes, gazing out. Its seven long, snow-themed songs swirl around a delicate core of Bush and her piano
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The Independent
A lush, immersive work which is sonically more homogeneous than her earlier albums
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The Guardian
Packed with the kind of ideas you can't imagine anyone else in rock having
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Independent on Sunday
To the relief of anyone who carries a torch for the reclusive genius, it's a beauty
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10.0
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The Skinny
Simultaneously sublime and understated
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9.0
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Consequence Of Sound
A sparse, beautiful, and ultimately pure backdrop for her creativity to soar
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9.0
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Bowlegs
Might well be Kate’s first album since 1985’s Hounds of Love to stake a claim as the artist’s most perfectly weighted collection
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Beats Per Minute
These tracks are sparse but airtight, haunting but unrelentingly gorgeous, both logical successors to the stunning second half of Aerial and completely unlike anything she’s done
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musicOMH
Absorbing and enchanting without having to resort to formulaic song structures, pop thrills or radio-friendly catchiness
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Drowned In Sound
In the 26 years since Hounds of Love, Aerial and 50 Words for Snow have been her only truly fully realised albums. Kate Bush is more than fallible; but at her peak she is incomparable
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DIY
Another impossibly beautiful and individually brilliant album. A perfect accompaniment to those long and dark wintry nights
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The Quietus
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
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Clash
She’s brilliant, sometimes inspired, and this tenth studio album finds her gifts undiminished
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Pitchfork
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
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Paste Magazine
Wintry, unhurried atmosphere defines every second of 50 Words for Snow, Bush’s most striking work since 1989’s The Sensual World
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The Scotsman
Bush has clearly not lost her peculiar imagination but it is realised with a wonderful, compassionate maturity on this album
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8.0
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No Ripcord
The work of a mature and serious artist, who has made a unique and lasting contribution to pop, and this album will continue her reputation
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Mojo
Within a snowball's throw of the winter solstice, it's hard to imagine another record scaling the lambent reverie of 50 Words For Snow. Print edition only
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Uncut
Kate Bush has never made a record that seems so ethereally disdainful of convention, of the parameters, themes and expectations of a simple pop song. But at the same time, she has never seemed so normal
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8.0
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Q
[This] is no jolly Christmas album. Bush's husky vocals rise through an ominous piano fog, generating a silvery chill. Print edition only
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8.0
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Evening Standard
Kate Bush sings erotically throughout. Make of that what you will
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PopMatters
Extended mood pieces and ambitious story-songs, set to muted keyboards, faraway string flourishes, sparse percussion
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State
A welcome return to the weird world-creation of records past, a place where strange things live and play, amid the ever falling, multi-appellated snow of the title
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The Irish Times
A sublime achievement, as uncompromisingly original as anything Bush has ever done
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Tiny Mix Tapes
The album’s deliberate pace implies a marked growth to Bush’s creative spirit — never before has she taken such obvious and tender care with her work
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Rave Magazine
Bush leaves us in no doubt that she is still in full possession of her otherworldly talent
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7.5
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BBC
The album only really reaches the heights Bush has set for herself when she appears centre stage
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A.V. Club
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
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7.0
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The Digital Fix
Frustrating, exhilarating, enchanting, confusing, maddening, embracing, heartbreaking, heartwarming. So many words for Kate Bush
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7.0
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Slant Magazine
It succeeds as a transitional work, but first and foremost as its own singular world—a hushed, magnificent snow globe full of strange stories and characters
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Under The Radar
A record that's more operatic in scope while staying within pop conventions in execution
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NME
Musically. we're in the same expansive, unhurried territory as 2005's 'Ariel'
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The Line Of Best Fit
It proves her credentials of distinct maturity as well as exhibiting her ability to experiment successfully with deep-set and sombre but thoroughly captivating music
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Spin
The overall dark, diaphanous sound here almost oversells the title, but it's impossible not to get lost in ?the drift
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6.0
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The Observer
This album is rather better when it is winking at you, rather than seeking to cryogenically preserve emotion
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Entertainment.ie
You have to have an affinity with Bush's earlier work to be able to appreciate this in any real way
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