Kate Bush – The Red Shoes (1993) CD Album
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Kate Bush – The Red Shoes (1993)
The Red Shoes is the seventh studio album by Kate Bush, released in November 1993 on EMI Records and entirely self-produced by Bush — the first of her albums to be produced solely by herself without a co-producer. The album takes its title and central imagery from the 1948 Powell and Pressburger film of the same name, and its themes of art, obsession and sacrifice run through the record's most personal and ambitious moments. It reached No. 2 on the UK Albums Chart and features a remarkable guest appearance by Prince on Why Should I Love You? — a collaboration that came about after Bush sent him a demo and he responded by recording his own parts and returning them. The album also features contributions from Eric Clapton on And So Is Love. Following The Red Shoes, Bush did not release another studio album for 12 years — making this a particularly significant and collectible entry in her catalogue, and the last album of her classic period.
Highlights
- Rubberband Girl — The lead single and the album's most immediately accessible moment; a joyful, rhythmically inventive pop song that showcases Bush's ability to deliver something warm and playful without sacrificing her artistic distinctiveness. The production is crisp and the vocal is one of her most relaxed and appealing.
- Moments of Pleasure — The album's most emotionally devastating track and one of the finest songs of Bush's career; a spare, piano-led meditation on loss and memory that names friends and collaborators who had died, delivered with a restraint and emotional honesty that is completely overwhelming.
- Why Should I Love You? (feat. Prince) — One of the great unexpected collaborations in 1990s pop; Prince's contribution — recorded independently and sent back to Bush — gives the track a layered, complex texture that is unlike anything else on the album, and the combination of their two voices and musical personalities is genuinely extraordinary.
- The Red Shoes — The title track and a showcase for Bush's theatrical storytelling; a driving, rhythmically propulsive art-pop song that draws on the Powell and Pressburger film's themes of artistic obsession and gives the album its emotional and conceptual centre.
- And So Is Love (feat. Eric Clapton) — A quietly devastating ballad that features Clapton's guitar with characteristic restraint and warmth; the song's meditation on love and mortality is one of the album's most personal moments and Clapton's contribution gives it an additional emotional depth and gravitas.
CD Details
- Title: The Red Shoes
- Artist: Kate Bush
- Year: 1993
- Label: EMI Records
- Producer: Kate Bush
- Format: CD Album
- Tracks: 12
- Barcode: 724382727729
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Condition: VG+/VG+ — see our Condition Grading Guide.
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