Kate Bush says she’s ‘very keen to start working on a new album’

Kate Bush has given a rare interview and hinted at the prospect of new music.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today program on Friday morning (October 25), the pop icon said she has ideas and desires to start a new album. Bush released her final studio album 50 words for snow in 2011.

When asked if she was currently working on new material, Bush said: “Not at the moment, but I’ve been busy doing a lot of archival work over the last few years, redesigning our website and putting together a lyric book.”

“And I’m really excited to start working on a new album when I’m done with it. I have a lot of ideas and I’m really looking forward to getting back into that creative space, it’s been a long time.”

When host Emma Barnett asked if it was a hope she’d had for some time, Bush replied: “Yes, it really is. In particular [in] Last year I felt really ready to do something new.”

Bush appeared on the show to promote a new short film she created called Little shrewwhich is accompanied by her song “Snowflake” from 2011. The four-minute short film, which you can watch below, was created by Bush and an illustrator to raise awareness and funds for the charity War Child, which supports young people in conflict.

Of the film, Bush said she “started working on it a few years ago, it wasn’t long before the war in Ukraine broke out, and I think it was a big shock to all of us.”

“It was such a long time of peace that we all lived through. And I just felt like I wanted to make a little animation that originally featured a little girl. It was really the idea of ​​children caught up in the war. I wanted to draw attention to how terrible it is for children.

“And so I came up with the idea for a storyboard and felt that people would actually show more compassion towards a creature than a human. So I came up with the idea that it should be a little shrew.”

The British artist’s breakthrough came at the end of the 1970s. Her hits include “Hounds of Love,” “Babooshka” and “Wuthering Heights.” In 1980, she became the first British solo artist to top the British album charts with her third album Never forever. Bush’s creative work has been sporadic in recent decades, and in 2014 she shocked the music world when she announced her return to the stage for a residency in London, her first live performances in decades.

In 2022, Bush’s 1985 single “Running Up That Hill” played a major role in the fourth season of Netflix Stranger Things and saw a flood of interest and streams across their back catalog. The song reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, improving its ranking from No. 30 on its original release, and topped the UK Singles Chart for three weeks, giving Bush her second No. 1 single. In 2023, the song reached over 1 billion streams on Spotify.