Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (07/20/89)
Really-From: nbc@informatics.rutherford.ac.uk In the info that IED passed on he omitted (in the excitement no doubt!) to omit to say that the single in August would be the title track. I guess that a video is being finished off at this very moment ... Also, "This Woman's Work" will be on the album. Neil
Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (09/20/89)
Really-From: nbc%INF.RL.AC.UK@mitvma.mit.edu
Here's the review of The Sensual World from this weeks Sounds.
Kate has often balanced precariously between Home Counties
humdrum and absolute eroticism. Here she swings to the latter
like never before, capturing the purity necessary to sex as
worship. Talk dirty to us Kate: "Then I take a kiss of
seedcake/ Go deep sex, go down." This is sex sucessfully rendered
as the opposite of prurience.
Abandoning the intellect for the intuition ("Stepping out of the
page into the sensual world"), but craftily hanging onto the
aesthetic perspective that mankind has spent so long acquiring,
this is a lovely evocation of the moment.
The way it encompasses the opulent production tech, instead of
being overpowered by it, is crucial, as is the vocalising on the
repeated "Uhhmm, yeah". A moment of meta-verbal magic in the
tradition of Larry Blackmon's "oww", this is pop at its best.
Reviewed by Roy Wilkinson
There is also a page and a half advert for the single (also in NME
and probably the other papers as well) of which onw whole page is
a photo.
Be seeing you.
Neil