Kate Bush says she’s “very keen to start working on a new album”.
It has been 13 years for the reason that 66-year-old star final shared new music, with the studio album 50 Phrases For Snow.
Regardless of the hole between releases and a intently guarded personal life, Bush gained a legion of recent followers in 2022 after the fourth collection of Netflix’s Stranger Issues featured her 1985 music Operating Up That Hill.
“I’m very keen to start working on a new album,” The Hounds Of Love singer instructed BBC Radio 4’s At present programme.
She added: “I’ve got lots of ideas. I’m really looking forward to getting back into that creative space. It’s been a long time.”
Bush additionally mentioned that any new music she places out has “got to be different”, as all of her earlier albums are completely different from one another.
Regardless of being wanting to work on new music, she mentioned she was not but able to return to the stage, saying “I’m not there yet”.
The English singer-songwriter’s final full stay live performance was again in Could 1979, with a live performance residency of twenty-two dates in 2014.
Bush additionally spoke to the At present programme about her new quick animation, titled Little Shrew, for the charity Battle Baby, which she mentioned “has taken up a lot of time this year” and added that when it’s completed “I’ll be ready to start anew”.
The music for the quick movie is a brand new 2024 radio edit of the observe Snowflake, which initially appeared on her 2011 album.
‘Darkish occasions we’re residing in’
Bush began engaged on the animation not lengthy after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, which she describes as a “shock for all of us”.
“I came up with this idea for a little storyboard, and thought that actually, more people would probably be more empathetic towards a little creature rather than a human,” she mentioned.
“So I came up with the idea of it being a little shrew.”
Bush added that “we’ve all become really desensitised by the violence that we see in the films all the time”.
She mentioned: “You know, where people are just being slaughtered, really. But if a dog were to be killed in a film, everyone would be up in arms. I mean it’s a terrible thing to say, but I think there is an element of truth in that.
“I believe we have all been by very troublesome occasions. These are darkish occasions that we’re residing in. And I believe to a sure extent, everyone seems to be simply worn out.
“I mean, we went through the pandemic, and that was a huge shock.
“And I believe actually we felt that when that was over, when you might ever say it was over, that we might all have the ability to kind of get on with some sort of regular life.
“But in fact, it just seems to be, you know, going from one situation to another and more wars seem to be breaking out all the time.”
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In 1978, Bush turned the primary lady to get to primary within the UK chart with a totally self-written music along with her debut single, Wuthering Heights, impressed by Emily Bronte’s gothic novel.
Different hits embrace Babooshka, Cloudbusting and The Man With The Baby In His Eyes, and she or he’s had three primary UK albums with By no means For Ever, Hounds Of Love and The Complete Story.