Kate Bush has said she is “very keen to start working on a new album”. The Hounds Of Love singer, 66, last released a studio album in 2011 called 50 Words For Snow. Two years ago, her record-breaking hit Running Up That Hill was named the UK’s biggest song of the summer for 2022 by the Official Charts Company following its global resurgence in popularity after it was featured in the fourth series of Stranger Things.

Kate Bush will make a return to music (PA) She added: “I’ve got lots of ideas. I’m really looking forward to getting back into that creative space. It’s been a long time.

” Bush also said that any new music she puts out has “got to be different”, as all of her previous albums are different from each other. When asked about whether she would perform on stage soon, Bush said that while she had loved performing she is “not there yet”. Bush also spoke to the Today programme about her new short animation, titled Little Shrew, for the charity War Child, which she said “has taken up a lot of time this year” and added, once it is finished, “I’ll be ready to start anew”.

The music for the short film is a new 2024 radio edit of the track Snowflake, which originally appeared on her 2011 album. “I came up with this idea for a little storyboard, and thought that actually, more people would probably be more empathetic towards a little creature rather than a human,” she said. “So I came up with the idea of it being a little shrew.

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