Aerial

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studio album
First released:
Nov 2 2005

Overview Edit

Aerial is the eighth studio album by the British singer Kate Bush. Released on 7 November 2005, it was her first album since 1993. The album peaked at No.3 in the UK and has been certified Platinum by the BPI and sold over 1,100,000 copies after just 5 months of being released.

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Record label:
unknown
Catalog number:
0946 346215 26
Release dates:
  • Nov 8 2005 in United States

Genres

Alternative, Progressive Rock. Vote on Genres

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5 stars Different Aerial views
I've been listening to Kate for many years now, but around the time Red Shoes came out, I thought Kate ceased to be a mad genius and was now only a garden-variety genius.

And this album seemed a little ho-hum at first hearing. Sea of Honey has wonderfully campy prog rock feel, but also a heavy dose of sticky melancholy. There is pastoral tone (a la Lark Ascending) and mood of summer music complete with swooshing Hawaiian waves, cutesy touches (Italian theme, voices of Bertie and Harris and all t…
Written by Akimon Azuki
3 stars Some tough-love concerning Aerial...
First, the good news: Aerial is not another pair of red shoes, and it does contain some very good material. The not-so-good news: it's without a doubt the most uneven recording that Kate's ever done, involving more than its fair share of filler. I'm going to go out on a limb here, risking the ire of probably all other Kate fans, to say that I've always thought she would benefit greatly from an outside producer, and I think this album bears me out on this point. I'm thinking of someone who has so…
Written by M. L. Johnson

Track listing Edit

  • CD 1 : A Sea of Honey

    format:
    number:
    title:
    number name artist hh:mm:ss
    1
    King of the Mountain
    4:53
    2
    Pi
    6:09
    3
    Bertie
    4:18
    4
    Mrs. Bartolozzi
    5:58
    5
    How to Be Invisible
    5:32
    6
    Joanni
    4:56
    7
    A Coral Room
    6:12

Credits Edit

  1. arranger

    1. Michael Kamen [orchestration]
  2. engineer

    1. Del Palmer [recording, mix]
  3. other

    1. John Carder Bush [photography]
  4. performer

    1. Dan McIntosh [guitar]
    2. Del Palmer [bass]
    3. Gary Brooker [hammond organ, backing vocals]
    4. Lol Creme [backing vocals]
    5. Paddy Bush [backing vocals]
    6. Peter Erskine [drums]
    7. Rolf Harris [didgeridoo]
  1. producer

  2. writer

Other versions Edit

Aerial 7 tracks format: 1 x CD
catalog number: 0946 346215 26
release dates: Nov 7 2005 in United Kingdom
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Aerial 9 tracks format: 1 x CD
record label: EMI Music Taiwan
catalog number: 0946 346215 26
release dates: Nov 2005 in Taiwan
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Aerial 16 tracks format: 2 x unknown format
catalog number: 343 960 2
release dates: Nov 7 2005 in United Kingdom
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Aerial 16 tracks format: 2 x unknown format
catalog number: 0946 346215 26
release dates: Nov 8 2005 in United States
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Aerial 16 tracks format: 2 x unknown format
catalog number: 343 960 1
release dates: Dec 19 2005 in United Kingdom
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16 tracks Japanese
format: 2 x CD
record label: Toshiba-EMI
catalog number: TOCP-66474/5
release dates: Nov 2 2005 in Japan
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Aerial 16 tracks format: 2 x CD
catalog number: 0946 346215 26
release dates: Nov 8 2005
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16 tracks format: 2 x CD
record label: EMI Group
catalog number: 0946 3 43960 2 8
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