Into the eighties, and here comes another heavy hitter. An oddity to me that this isn't on the best of, but perhaps it was felt with Wuthering Heights there was already a little too much weirdness on display. I like it a lot, and it definitely has echoes of Kashka from Baghdad, the Lionheart track, on there.
We're in a more deliberate phase here, noises that are meant to be there rather than by accident. Layers of sounds, effects, instrumentation, vocals. There's a clear male vocal doing backing on the first few tracks, which appears to be Paddy, Kate's older brother. So listen up Billie Eilish, there's nothing new under the sun.
Violin is great, kind of like a Sparks/Lene Lovich crossover, and a nice throwback to Saxophone Song too. It's amazing to think this was a number one album, but obviously not that surprising off the back of the success she had already had.
Army Dreamers comes in at the end, perhaps one of my favourites of the KB songs I'm currently aware of. It reminds me of childhood, I guess - Simon & Garfunkel and Don McLean, that intriguing background march, the counterpoint male vocals.
I always knew it wasn't pro-war per se, but it is quite striking just how anti-war it is. Where have all the flowers gone. Should have been a rock star. What a waste.