10 Rock Music Acts That Went Dark (AND NAILED IT)
9. The Dreaming - Kate Bush
About halfway through her career, it was becoming clear that Kate Bush was going to do whatever the hell she wanted. For all of the great songs that she has released and her recent resurgence due to Stranger Things, a lot of people forget that she never even went on tour that often, looking to craft songs from scratch during recording. Kate may have lived at the studio casually taking risks, but The Dreaming was where fans started to really question just where the hell she would be going next.
After already having songs like Wuthering Heights under her belt, The Dreaming was described by Kate as her 'She's Gone Mad' album, as her and her team throw everything at the wall and see whatever sticks. While this makes for some of the most forward thinking songs she has ever made, it also gives you some songs that need some time to sink in, like when she adopts different accents on There Goes a Tenner. Being inspired by the ramshackle approach of Never For Ever, this feels like the logical next step, where Kate is going for broke with her vocals and using it more like an instrument than ever before.
Although some fans were a bit taken aback by what they heard on here, this was just the warm up for what was coming just a few years later, with Hounds of Love setting the gold standard for the more artsy side of what Kate was capable of. This might not be the first record of Kate's that you should throw yourself into or anything, but it does match the zany personality of her much better than anything else in her catalog.