We were already in the habit of covering our favourite songs from the 80s, so I suggested that we do Running Up That Hill but that we slow the tempo down as much as we could without it becoming a dirge, and obviously we wanted to keep it electronic with sounds from the early 2000s. Then as I got more and more into the lyrics and they touched me further, it occurred to me that the tempo of the song was a little bit fast for the gravitas of the lyrics to really land. One was the snare sound: really 80s and quite generic.
I loved almost all of Running Up That Hill but there were a couple of things which bothered me. Kate’s music meant I could leave the drudgery of my everyday life and my family situation and escape into my imagination – that’s still what I look for today in music. There needs to be enough ambiguity there for it to become very personal to each listener. I’m nostalgic for that period in music because I think we’re given too much information today, so there’s less capacity for us to create those personal universes through somebody else’s work. Brian Molko, Placebo: ‘I could leave the drudgery of my everyday life’ In isolation the ideas might not make sense, whereas she can push it to this other place: her choices are really beautiful and massive and dramatic. The wrong person could make what she does sound really cheesy. I don’t think it’s ever very strict verse-chorus. I had never listened to music in such a literary way.Īs a singer, the thing that has directly affected me is her circular style of melodies one comes into the other and they never exactly repeat in the same way. Hearing her talk about Emily Brontë’s novel was something I’d never heard before, either inserting herself into a story that wasn’t her own. The music Kate Bush makes is pretty genre-defying. I hadn’t heard a melody that complex and in that high range before – or a song as exploratory in production and arrangement. The first adult friend I made after moving back was a painter’s assistant named Alison, and she played me Wuthering Heights on a car ride through New Jersey. As a teenager I had moved to Tennessee and tried to do college but ended up coming back home to my parents with my tail between my legs. I was a late bloomer when it came to hearing Kate’s music.
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