Since this was my pick, it's no surprise that I love it to death.
I just love the atmosphere of this record, as well as the inventiveness and variety of these songs. A lot of them just sound so... Kate Bushy. I have yet to find any other artist that really feels anything like "Blow Away", "All We Ever Look For", "Egypt" or "Delius".
There's no bad tracks here. It's just a tightly constructed, nearly perfect journey through exactly the kind of thing Kate does best. I know that this album isn't widely considered her best, but to me, it probably is - although, frankly, most of her early albums are very, very close on my personal ranking.
Kate Bush didn't really **** up until she made her 1993 album, The Red Shoes. Her 2011 album 50 Words for Snow is widely underrated because people didn't really expect her to do anything super vital again so late in her career, but in my eyes, it's a classic that belongs right next to The Hounds of Love and The Sensual World. Anyway, this was about Never for Ever, and that album is very, very , very good.
Favorite songs: "Egypt", "The Wedding List" and "Breathing".
10/10
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