The album Hounds Of Love by Kate Bush turned 40 years old this month. It has really stood the test of time. It still sounds like nothing else. It’s kind of two albums in one. There’s the A side with all those perfect pop songs—Running Up That Hill, Hounds Of Love, Cloudbusting, The Big Sky—each one brilliant and self-contained. Then there’s the B side, The Ninth Wave. It’s like its own concept album within an album. It’s weird and challening, but I love it. At times it’s downr...
