Kick Inside, The - Kate Bush > Reviews > This woman's early work

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Advantages:	Brilliant debut
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This is a powerful debut album. It contains many gems from Kate, many of which were written in her early to late teens. Discovered and helped by David Gilmour of Pink Floyd fame who went on to produce this album. It opens with the haunting 'Moving' which ends to the sound of whales singing as it drifts into 'Saxaphone song'. Kate has had a very theatrical upbringing which is portrayed all through her career and none more so than on tracks like 'Man with the child in his eyes', which she wrote when she was thirteen, and 'Wuthering Heights' which was her debut single and went to number one. Kate's voice is unmistakable, it grabs hold of you and delivers you to a higher, more sensual ground. You may want to stay there so dont forget a change of clothes.