Today (May 16), enigmatic U.K. singer-songwriter Kate Bush, 52, launched Director’s Cut, a compilation album that includes reworked material from previous albums. The Wuthering Heights hitmaker also stated that she is working on an album of new material, most of which has been written. Its release date is currently unknown.
Bush described Director’s Cut as an entirely new project rather than a collection of mere remixes, as it contains 11 tracks of reworked material from her earlier albums The Sensual World and The Red Shoes, all of which have been recorded using analog, rather than digital, equipment to create "a warmer sound."
The first single released from the album was Deeper Understanding and contains a new chorus featuring computerized vocals from Bush’s son, Albert. A video for the song, directed by Bush, and featuring Robbie Coltrane, has been released through her channel on YouTube.
She also laments the amount of time required to complete an album: "It’s very frustrating the albums take as long as they do. I wish there weren’t such big gaps between them.”
The singer-songwriter denied that she was too much of a "perfectionist" in the studio, noting, "I don’t think I am. People have said this, but I don’t think I really want anything to be perfect. I think it’s important that things are flawed. That’s what makes a piece of art interesting sometimes, the bit that’s wrong or the mistake you’ve made that’s led onto an idea you wouldn’t have had otherwise.”