Worth every day of the wait, and then some.   Full text...

It sounds sweeter and more beautiful than anything else on earth.  Full text...

Concept albums are not everyone's cup of tea - but this is a masterpiece.  Full text...

Aerial sounds like an album made in isolation.  Full text...

Aerial is possibly Bush's most musically diverse album  Full text...

It's a triumph.  Full text...

Aerial isn't perfect, but it is magnificent.   Full text...

And this suits Bush just fine.  Full text...

It doesn't dwell in a certain space of the timeline of music, it nestles in a perpindicular direction, possibly in a seperate dimension construced in isolation on the fringe of insanity.  Full text...

Oh, so that's what she did with her time!  Full text...

Split across two CDs - the more conventional, accessible chapter, "A Sea of Honey" and the second, more freeform, classically-inspired "A Sky Of Honey" - even her most ardent subjects would concede "Aerial" is a more satisfying album intellectually than it is musically.   Full text...

More literal with lyrics and straightforward in the ballads, Aerial may be a bit less imaginative than some of her earlier work, which separated her from her peers twenty years ago, but it confirms Bush's success and longevity.  Full text...

Musically, this is reflected in a uniformly low-key backdrop of piano, pastel rhythm section, and, of course, her own lush palette of vocal textures.  Full text...

When she presents her music like this - so far beyond the perimeters of anything happening in pop today - Kate Bush seems at her most comfortable.  Full text...