50 Words for Snow

50 Words for Snow was released on 21 November 2011, Bush's second album of that year, following Director's Cut. The album consists of seven songs "set against a background of falling snow" and has a running time of 65 minutes.{{cite magazine|first=Matthew|last=Perpetua|author-link=Matthew Perpetua|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/kate-bush-first-new-album-in-six-years-20110912|title=Kate Bush: First New Album in Six Years|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=12 September 2011|access-date=2011-09-12}} The songs "Lake Tahoe" and "Misty" are the two longest songs in Bush's catalogue and her only individual songs that are over ten minutes long. In November 2018, Bush released box sets of remasters of her studio albums, including 50 Words for Snow.

A radio edit of the first single, "Wild Man", was played on BBC Radio 2's Ken Bruce Show on 10 October. The single, featuring both the radio edit as well as the album version, was released on 11 October. Andy Fairweather Low guest stars on this story of a group of people exploring the Himalayas who, upon finding evidence of the elusive, mythical Yeti, out of compassion cover up all traces of its footprints. Priya Elan in the New Musical Express greeted the single with enthusiasm, saying: "For those of us who have been secretly longing for a return to the unflinchingly bizarre and Bush's ability to conjure up strange new worlds, 'Wild Man' is a deep joy."{{cite web|url=http://www.nme.com/reviews/kate-bush/12361|title=Music & Film Reviews - NME.COM|website=NME|date=10 October 2011}}

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In an interview with the American radio station KCRW, Bush said that the idea for the album's title song came from thinking about how the Eskimo have 50 words for snow,{{Cite web|url=https://www.treehugger.com/are-there-really-eskimo-words-for-snow-4862000|title = Are There Really 50 Eskimo Words for Snow?}} which led her to use fantastical words and phrases, such as "spangladasha", "blown from Polar fur", and "Robber's Veil". The album's songs are built around Bush's quietly jazzy piano and Steve Gadd's drums (she had just started working with him and praised his "brilliant drumming"{{cite news|url=http://www.theworld.org/2011/11/kate-bush-talks-about-snow-and-a-producer-melts/ |title=Kate Bush Talks About Snow and a Producer Melts |last=Peavey |first=April |date=15 April 2011 |work=The World |publisher=PRI |access-date=2 March 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111206002615/http://www.theworld.org/2011/11/kate-bush-talks-about-snow-and-a-producer-melts/ |archive-date=6 December 2011 }}), and utilize both sung and spoken word vocals in what Classic Rock's Stephen Dalton calls "a...supple and experimental affair, with a contemporary chamber pop sound grounded in crisp piano, minimal percussion and light-touch electronics...billowing jazz-rock soundscapes, interwoven with fragmentary narratives delivered in a range of voices from shrill to Laurie Anderson-style cooing."{{Cite web |url=http://www.katebushnews.com/index.php/author/peter/ |title=Stephen Dalton describes 50 Words for Snow |access-date=15 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304024737/http://www.katebushnews.com/index.php/author/peter/ |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead }} Bassist Danny Thompson also appears on the album.

The album's opening track, "Snowflake", was written specifically to use the high choir-boy voice of Bush's son Albert, who sang the role of a falling snowflake in a song expressing the hope of a noisy world soon being hushed by snowfall.{{Cite web |last=Tiller |first=Joe |date=11 December 2022 |title=50 Words For Snow: How Kate Bush Made A Wintry Wonder Of An Album |url=https://www.thisisdig.com/feature/50-words-for-snow-kate-bush-album/ |access-date=25 September 2024 |website=Dig! |language=en-US}} A radio edit of the song was released as a single on 25 October 2024, in conjunction with Bush's short animated film, Little Shrew, which the song soundtracks.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn7mlp8rd77o|title=Kate Bush reveals plans to make new music|website=BBC|last=McIntosh|first=Steven|date=25 October 2024|access-date=25 October 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/oct/25/kate-bush-little-shrew-review-this-devastating-film-will-make-you-weep-at-wars-violence-against-children|title=Kate Bush: Little Shrew review – this devastating film will make you weep at war’s violence against children|website=The Guardian|last=Beaumont-Thomas|first=Ben|date=25 October 2024|access-date=25 October 2024}}

"Lake Tahoe" features choral singers Stefan Roberts and Michael Wood joining Bush in a song about a rarely seen ghost: a woman who appears in a Victorian gown to call to her dog, Snowflake. Bush explained to fellow musician Jamie Cullum in an interview on Dutch Radio{{Cite web|url=https://www.avrotros.nl|title=Home|website=Avrotros.nl|access-date=22 November 2024}} that she wished to explore using high male voices in contrast to her own, deeper, voice. "Misty" is about a snowman lover who melts away after a night of passion, and after "Wild Man", Elton John and Bush as eternally divided lovers trade vocals on "Snowed In at Wheeler Street", while actor Stephen Fry recites the "50 Words for Snow". The quiet love song "Among Angels" finishes the album.{{Cite web|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/turnitup/chi-kate-bush-album-review-50-words-for-snow-reviewed-20111118,0,6147350.column|title=Chicago Tribune review of 50 Words for Snow|website=Chicagotribune.com|access-date=22 November 2024}}

Two stop-motion animation videos were released online to promote the album, one to accompany a section of "Misty" (called "Mistraldespair"), the other to accompany a section of "Wild Man". "Mistraldespair" was directed by Bush and animated by Tommy Thompson and Gary Pureton,{{Cite web|url=https://www.katebush.com/news_article/mistraldespair-animation/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111128040657/http://www.katebush.com/news/mistraldespair-animation|url-status=dead|title=Mistraldespair - Animation - Kate Bush|date=25 November 2011|archive-date=28 November 2011|access-date=22 November 2024}} while the "Wild Man" segment was created by Finn and Patrick at Brandt Animation.{{Cite web|url=https://www.katebush.com/news_article/wild-man-animation/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111120015700/http://www.katebush.com/news/wild-man-animation|url-status=dead|title=Wild Man - Animation - Kate Bush|date=16 November 2011|archive-date=20 November 2011|access-date=22 November 2024}} On 24 January 2012, a third piece called "Eider Falls at Lake Tahoe", was premiered on her website and on YouTube. Running at 5:01, the piece is a black-and-white shadow puppet animation that NPR's Dan Raby calls "...beautiful in its simplicity – emphasizing small subtle movements over big extravagance... The stark contrast between the black figures and the white world makes each set piece seem mystical."{{cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2012/01/24/145698181/first-watch-kate-bushs-shadow-play|title=First Watch: Kate Bush's Shadow Play|newspaper=NPR|date=24 January 2012|last1=Raby|first1=Dan}} Directed by Bush and photographed by award-winning British cinematographer Roger Pratt, the shadow puppets were designed by Robert Allsopp.{{Cite web|url=https://www.katebush.com/news/eider-falls-lake-tahoe-animation|website=www.katebush.com|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120127145355/http://www.katebush.com/news/eider-falls-lake-tahoe-animation|url-status=dead|title=Eider Falls at Lake Tahoe|date=1 November 2023|archive-date=27 January 2012|access-date=22 November 2024}}

The album's closing track, "Among Angels", was included in the setlist of Bush's Before the Dawn concerts in 2014. In 2015, a remixed version of "Wild Man" was included on The Art of Peace − Songs for Tibet II compilation album celebrating the 80th birthday of the Dalai Lama.{{cite web|title=The Art of Peace – Songs for Tibet II |url=http://www.katebush.com/news/art-peace-songs-tibet-ii |publisher=Kate Bush |access-date=9 September 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151021174344/http://www.katebush.com/news/art-peace-songs-tibet-ii |archive-date=21 October 2015 }}

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| ADM = 8.2/10{{cite web|url=http://anydecentmusic.com/review/3888/Kate-Bush-50-Words-for-Snow.aspx|title=50 Words for Snow by Kate Bush reviews|website=AnyDecentMusic?|access-date=28 December 2019}}

| MC = 85/100{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/50-words-for-snow|title=Reviews for 50 Words for Snow by Kate Bush|website=Metacritic|access-date=19 November 2011}}

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web|last=Jurek|first=Thom|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/50-words-for-snow-mw0002223587|title=50 Words for Snow – Kate Bush|website=AllMusic|access-date=18 November 2011}}

| rev2 = The Daily Telegraph

| rev2Score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{cite news|last=Brown|first=Helen|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/cdreviews/8897114/Kate-Bush-50-Words-for-Snow-CD-review.html|title=Kate Bush: 50 Words for Snow, CD review|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|date=18 November 2011|access-date=19 January 2019}}

| rev3 = Entertainment Weekly

| rev3Score = A−{{cite magazine|last=Wood|first=Mikael|date=17 November 2011|url=https://ew.com/article/2011/11/17/50-words-snow-review-kate-bush/|title=50 Words for Snow|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=18 November 2011|archive-date=24 December 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111224122038/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20545871,00.html|url-status=live}}

| rev4 = The Guardian

| rev4Score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{cite news|last=Petridis|first=Alexis|author-link=Alexis Petridis|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/nov/17/kate-bush-50-words-snow|title=Kate Bush: 50 Words for Snow – review|work=The Guardian|location=London|date=17 November 2011|access-date=19 January 2019}}

| rev5 = The Independent

| rev5Score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{cite news|last=Gill|first=Andy|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/album-kate-bush-50-words-for-snow-fish-people-6263759.html|title=Album: Kate Bush, 50 Words For Snow (Fish People)|work=The Independent|location=London|date=18 November 2011|access-date=19 November 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111119214543/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/album-kate-bush-50-words-for-snow-fish-people-6263759.html|archive-date=19 November 2011}}

| rev6 = Los Angeles Times

| rev6Score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}{{cite news|last=Wappler|first=Margaret|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2011/11/album-review-kate-bushs-50-words-for-snow.html|title=Album Review: Kate Bush's "50 Words for Snow"|work=Los Angeles Times|date=21 November 2011|access-date=14 August 2012}}

| rev7 = NME

| rev7Score = 7/10{{cite journal|last=Mackay|first=Emily|url=http://www.nme.com/reviews/kate-bush/12495|title=Album Review: Kate Bush – '50 Words For Snow'|journal=NME|date=25 November 2011|access-date=14 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111130022325/http://www.nme.com/reviews/kate-bush/12495|archive-date=30 November 2011|url-status=dead}}

| rev8 = Pitchfork

| rev8Score = 8.5/10{{cite web|last=Dombal|first=Ryan|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16067-50-words-for-snow/|title=Kate Bush: 50 Words for Snow|website=Pitchfork|date=21 November 2011|access-date=14 August 2012}}

| rev9 = Rolling Stone

| rev9Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite magazine|last=Hermes|first=Will|author-link=Will Hermes|title=An Art-Rock Godmother Returns|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=24 November 2011|page=70}}

| rev10 = Spin

| rev10Score = 7/10{{cite journal|last=Hopper|first=Jessica|url=http://www.spin.com/reviews/kate-bush-50-words-snow-anti|title=Kate Bush, '50 Words for Snow' (Anti-)|journal=Spin|date=21 November 2011|access-date=14 August 2012}}

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On 27 November, 50 Words for Snow entered the UK album charts at {{thinspace|No.|5}}, making Bush the first female recording artist to have an album of all-new material in the top five during each of the last five decades.{{cite web |date=27 November 2011 |title=Kate enters UK album chart at no.5 - |url=http://www.katebushnews.com/index.php/2011/11/kate-enters-uk-album-chart-at-no-5/}} Despite being released in the eleventh month of 2011, it was the eighth best-selling vinyl album of the year.{{cite news |date=24 January 2012 |title=Six-year high for vinyl record sales as singles decline |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/16703917/six-year-high-for-vinyl-record-sales-as-singles-decline |work=BBC News}} It also peaked at {{thinspace|No.|83}} on the Billboard 200 in the United States, while reaching {{thinspace|No.|7}} on the Independent Albums chart.{{cite web |title=Artist Search for "kate bush" |url=http://www.allmusic.com/search/artists/kate+bush |website=AllMusic}}

50 Words for Snow received widespread acclaim from most music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 85, based on 35 reviews, which indicates "universal acclaim".

On 14 November 2011, NPR played the album in its entirety for the first time. In her accompanying review of the album, NPR music critic Ann Powers writes: "Each song on Snow grows as if from magic beans from the lush ground of the singer-songwriter's keyboard parts. The music is immersive but spacious, jazz-tinged and lushly electronic – the 53-year-old Bush, a prime inspiration for tech-savvy young auteurs ranging from St. Vincent to hip-hop's Big Boi, pioneered the use of digital samplers in the 1980s and is still an avid aural manipulator. This time around, drummer Steve Gadd is her most important interlocutor – the veteran studio player's gentle but firm touch draws the frame around each of her expanding landscapes. But Bush won't be restricted. Like [Joni] Mitchell on Don Juan's Restless Daughter^{{Sic}}, she takes her time and lets her characters lead." The Guardian's Alexis Petridis notes that "For all the subtle beauty of the orchestrations, there's an organic, live feel, the sense of musicians huddled together in a room, not something that's happened on a Bush album before."{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/nov/17/kate-bush-50-words-snow|title=Kate Bush: 50 Words for Snow – review|first=Alexis|last=Petridis|date=17 November 2011|access-date=22 November 2024|newspaper=The Guardian}}

Will Hermes in Rolling Stone writes: "[50 Words for Snow is] an LP that finds a universe of emotions in its wintery theme – a sort of virtual snowglobe ... the music ... is full of plush, drifty ambience. The vocals sound nothing like the fierce cyberbabe on her 1982 LP The Dreaming, or the strange angels on Hounds of Love, but they are no less sublime ... she sounds utterly at home defining her own world. It's an amazing place."{{cite web|url=http://www.katebushnews.com/index.php/2011/11/sublimely-strange-rolling-stone/|title="Sublimely strange": Rolling Stone -|access-date=14 November 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160918060711/http://www.katebushnews.com/index.php/2011/11/sublimely-strange-rolling-stone/|archive-date=18 September 2016|url-status=dead}} Everything Entertainment Central's Tim David Harvey says: "The album begins with the beautiful fall of a song called 'Snowflake', before getting operatic, strange and even more sublime with 'Lake Tahoe' which is as deep and decedent as the place itself, it's that kind of picturesque music," and goes on to call the album "unique, concise, cohesive classic."{{Cite web|url=http://eceverythingentertainmentcentral.blogspot.com/2011/11/music-review-kate-bush-50-words-for.html#!/2011/11/music-review-kate-bush-50-words-for.html|title=MUSIC REVIEW: KATE BUSH-50 WORDS FOR SNOW|website=Eceverythingentertainmentcentral.blogspot.com|access-date=22 November 2024}}

The Quietus' Joe Kennedy compares 50 Words for Snow to the work of such artists as Michael Nyman, Brian Eno and Scott Walker, writing "Snow brings about a state of exception in which there's no pressure to exert ourselves on the outside world: instead, it invites contemplativeness and the prioritisation of personal and domestic relationships over professional ones. Bush's habitual provocations to abandon day-to-day concerns while cultivating romantic, internal landscapes have always felt slightly like the work of someone gazing from a window into a blizzard. This, one senses, is her natural territory...Where her past work has often been heavily-layered and breathless, 50 Words for Snow uses negative space to impressive effect; much of the album features little more than voice and flurrying passages of piano which gust across the stave, changing pace and melodic direction as if they're suddenly hitting updrafts."{{cite web | url=http://thequietus.com/articles/07422-kate-bush-50-words-for-snow-review | work=The Quietus | title=Kate Bush / 50 Words for Snow | date=18 November 2011 | first=Joe | last=Kennedy | access-date=14 February 2012 }} Other critics take exception to some of Bush's choices, greeting the album with scepticism. Ludovic Hunter-Tilsley in The Financial Times warns that despite "slow eddies of piano chords and gentle percussion … wintry piano, atmospheric orchestral arrangements and an intimate, torch-lit vocal from Bush, who, at 53, has acquired a warm huskiness to her voice … the album wobbles with the hammy Elton John duet "Snowed In at Wheeler St", and topples over on the title track in which Bush invites Stephen Fry to dream up 50 terms for snow ... 50 Words for Snow elucidates its wintry theme with flashes of brilliance but the odd treacherous icy patch too";{{cite news|url=https://www.ft.com/content/e1caaf36-10c0-11e1-8010-00144feabdc0|title=Kate Bush: 50 Words for Snow|newspaper=Financial Times|date=18 November 2011}}

Australia's ABC Radio National declared 50 Words for Snow album of the week of 12 November 2011, calling the album "quiet, lush and otherworldly."{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/rn/breakfast/stories/2011/3359910.htm|title=Album of the week: Kate Bush|website=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |date=20 July 2011}} Mojo placed the album at {{thinspace|No.|5}} on its list of "Top 50 albums of 2011"{{cite web | url=http://stereogum.com/894362/mojos-top-50-albums-of-2011/list/ | title=MOJO's Top 50 Albums Of 2011 | publisher=Stereogum | date=2 December 2011 | access-date=16 December 2011}} while Stereogum placed the album at {{thinspace|No.|11}}, Pitchfork placed the album at {{thinspace|No.|36}} and Uncut placed it at {{thinspace|No.|40}} on their lists.{{cite web | url=http://stereogum.com/891411/stereogums-top-50-albums-of-2011/franchises/listomania/ | title=Stereogum's Top 50 Albums of 2011 | publisher=Stereogum | date=5 December 2011 | access-date=15 January 2012}}{{cite web | url=http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/8727-the-top-50-albums-of-2011/2/ | title=Staff Lists: The Top 50 Albums of 2011 | publisher=Pitchfork Media | date=15 December 2011 | access-date=8 January 2012 | archive-date=4 March 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304091548/http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/8727-the-top-50-albums-of-2011/2/ | url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://stereogum.com/891311/uncuts-top-50-albums-of-2011/list/ |title=Uncut's Top 50 Albums Of 2011 |publisher=Stereogum |date=2011-11-29 |access-date=2012-08-14}}

Bush was nominated for 2012 BRIT Awards as Best British Female Solo Artist, but lost to Adele. She also made her first public appearance after 10 years, picking the South Bank Sky Arts Award in the Pop category for 50 Words for Snow, beating fellow nominees Adele, for 21 and PJ Harvey, for Let England Shake. The same three albums were nominated for the Best Album award at the 2012 Ivor Novello Awards, won by PJ Harvey. In 2019, Pitchfork ranked the release at {{thinspace|No.|191}} in their list of "The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s"; editor Katherine St. Asaph describes the album as "music that rewards close attention in an age where that is increasingly rare."{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-200-best-albums-of-the-2010s/|title=The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s|work=Pitchfork|date=8 October 2019|access-date=8 October 2019}}

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| title2 = Lake Tahoe

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| title3 = Misty

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| title4 = Wild Man

| length4 = 7:17

| title5 = Snowed In at Wheeler Street

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| title6 = 50 Words for Snow

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• Kate Bush – vocals, piano (1–3, 5, 7), backing vocals (4), bass guitar (1), keyboards (4–6)
• Dan McIntosh – guitar (1, 3–6)
• Del Palmer – bass guitar (1), bells (4)
• Danny Thompson – double bass (3)
• John Giblin – bass guitar (4–6)
• Steve Gadd – drums (1–6)
• Albert McIntosh – lead vocal (1)
• Michael Wood and Stefan Roberts – featured vocal (2)
• Andy Fairweather-Low – backing vocals (4)
• Elton John – featured vocal (5)
• Stephen Fry (as Prof. Joseph Yupik) – recitation (6)

Production

• Produced by Kate Bush
• Recorded by Del Palmer
• Additional recording by Stephen W. Tayler
• Mixed by Stephen W. Tayler
• Assisted by Stanley Gabriel
• Additional assistants: Jim Jones, Robert Houston, Patrick Phillips and Kris Burton
• Mastered by Doug Sax and James Guthrie
• Assisted by Eric Boulanger
• Orchestral arrangements by Jonathan Tunick
• Orchestra conducted by Jonathan Tunick
• Orchestra sessions recorded at Abbey Road Studios
• Recorded by Simon Rhodes
• Assisted by Chris Bolster and John Barrett

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{{Certification Table Entry|region=France|nocert=yes|salesamount=20,000|salesref={{cite web |last=Hamard |first=Jonathan |url=http://www.chartsinfrance.net/Kate-Bush/news-81211.html |title=Kate Bush dévoile un nouveau remix de "Running Up That Hill" |website=Charts in France |language=fr |date=13 August 2012 |access-date=13 August 2012}}}}

{{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|artist=Kate Bush|title=50 Words for Snow|award=Gold|type=album|relyear=2011|id=8797-3271-2|date=2 December 2011|salesamount=155,000|salesref={{cite web |last=Copsey |first=Rob |url=http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/kate-bush-sees-11-albums-enter-the-top-100-ahead-of-first-live-shows-in-35-years__7521/ |title=Kate Bush sees 11 albums enter the Top 100 ahead of first live shows in 35 years |publisher=Official Charts Company |date=26 August 2014 |access-date=26 August 2014}}}}

{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|nocert=yes|salesamount=42,889|salesref={{cite web |url=https://www.scribd.com/document/245057057/Atrl-net-Dec-09th-Dec-16th-2014 |title=UMGD New Releases: Marianne Faithfull – Give My Love to London |publisher=Universal Music Group |year=2014 |page=89 |access-date=9 December 2017 |via=Scribd}}}}

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