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 The Dreaming, released in 1982 through EMI in the UK and EMI America Records in the US, is the fourth studio album by English art pop musician Kate Bush.A dramatic departure from the Baroque Pop of her earlier work, this record marks a shift into far more aggressive and experimental territory, informed heavily by both Bush's prior work with Peter Gabriel on his similarly dark, percussive third album and her growing enthusiasm for the Fairlight CMI digital sampler and the flexibility it offered in composing and performing. Her previous album, Never for Ever, had already made use of the device to a minor degree, but here Bush embraced it wholeheartedly, so much so that for the first time she elected to produce an album entirely on her own.At the same time, Bush had also grown frustrated with public perception of her as a ditzy airhead who got by mainly on her looks. The darker and more disjointed tone of the album thus doubled as an attempt to break out of this mold and demonstrate a greater level of artistic range than on her previous three records. Tellingly, her choice of opening track and leadoff single was "Sat in Your Lap", a more abstract and percussive piece that belied the airy tone of her earlier releases.Upon release, the album significantly undersold in the UK compared to its predecessors. While it went to No. 3 on the UK Albums chart, its total sales only amounted to a silver BPI certification compared to the platinum status of The Kick Inside & Lionheart and the gold of Never for Ever. In the United States meanwhile, where Bush had struggled to crack the market, it was a much different story, becoming her first album to chart there (peaking at No. 157 on the Billboard 200) and receiving substantial airplay on College Radio and MTV, both of which would serve as important outlets for Alternative Rock throughout the decade. MTV had been playing Bush's videos since its debut the year prior. In the wake of this, EMI would reissue The Kick Inside and Lionheart in America, issue a self-titled EP, and belatedly release Never for Ever there as well. The Dreaming was supported by five singles: "Sat in Your Lap", "The Dreaming", "There Goes a Tenner", "Suspended in Gaffa", and "Night of the Swallow".Bush herself would come to regard The Dreaming as something of an Old Shame, feeling she had pushed the experimentation a bit too far to the point of alienating listeners, but in recent years it has been vindicated for its creativity and is considered amongst her finest records.Tracklist:Side 1 "Sat in Your Lap" (3:29) "There Goes a Tenner" (3:24) "Pull Out the Pin" (5:26) "Suspended in Gaffa" (3:54) "Leave It Open" (3:20)Side 2 "The Dreaming" (4:41) "Night of the Swallow" (5:22) "All the Love" (4:29) "Houdini" (3:48) "Get Out of My House" (5:25)See the light ram through the tropes in the land:
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