Review by Bruce Eder
Kate Bush's strongest album to date marked her breakthrough into the American charts, and yielded a set of dazzling videos. The material ranges from the sensual ("Hounds of Love," "Running up That Hill" -- the latter one of the most sensual recordings ever made) to the mystical ("Hello Earth," "The Morning Fog"). This was also the first album produced by Bush entirely at her own home studio, and the results are spellbinding, the layered instruments recalling the Beatles at their most ornate, but also displaying an exquisite timbrel range, bringing out the richness of the individual instruments. [In 1997, as a part of EMI's 100th anniversary, Hounds of Love was reissued, augmented with a bunch of rare singles, B-sides, outtakes, and more from the same period.]
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