Kate Bush • The Sensual World
Audio Fidelity/Columbia Records AFZLP 082
33-RPM 180 g LP
Originally released in 1989, The Sensual World is Kate Bush’s sixth studio album, and the second to be released by Audio Fidelity (Audio Fidelity’s other Kate Bush reissue is Hounds of Love. The album consists of ten tracks, three of which were released as singles: The Sensual World, Love and Anger, and This Woman’s Work.
Despite selling in greater quantities, I find the music on The Sensual World not quite as mainstream as, for example, that on Bush’s debut, The Kick Inside, whose tracks include the wonderfully breathtaking Wuthering Heights. The tracks on The Sensual World are more personal in nature.
The Sensual World was remastered by Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray, and a fine job they have done: I can’t fault the sound quality. Audio Fidelity have also done a great job with the pressing, which is flat and quiet. The gatefold sleeve packaging is the icing on the cake, and I have no qualms in recommending this record.