L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Album Review: Kate Bush's "50 Words for Snow" written by Margaret Wappler. more info

USA Today Music — Plus, new releases from Daughtry and Nickelback more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The last big music release week of the year brings several albums I can wholeheartedly recommend, including Kate Bush's 50 Words for Snow, Calexico's Road Atlas 1998-2011, Rhett Miller's The Interpreter, Live at Largo, and Wooden Wand's Briarwood. Al... more info

ContactMusic — Kate Bush has wanted to make a wintry album for some time The Wuthering Heights hitmaker has made a seven track record 50 Words for Snow - only her eleventh album in a 33 year career - and she revealed she chose to focus on the frozen precipitat... more info

Guardian Music — (Fish People)As anyone who watches QI will tell you, the Inuit language does not actually have 50 words for snow. It's a myth, but one so pervasive, so pretty, you feel it ought to be true. On the title track of her 10th album, Kate Bush obliges with... more info

ContactMusic — Motherhood has changed how Kate Bush works The Wuthering Heights singer gave birth to son Bertie in 1998 and said she can no longer afford to spend huge periods of time in the recording studio but instead snatches smaller stints whenever she can... more info

Chicago Tribune — 3 stars (out of 4) more info

ContactMusic — Kate Bush credits the birth of her son with boosting her creativity because she learned to work in a different way after becoming a mother The Wuthering Heights star disappeared from the spotlight in 1998 to focus on being a mum to her son Bertie and... more info

DrownedInSound — This week's content-themed Spotify playlist featuers 11 tracks, including some from Kate Bush, Allo Darlin', Los Campesinos!, Walls, Tycho...and then some! Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info

Stereogum — The new video for Kate Bush’s 50 Words For Snow track “Wild Man” takes a two-and-a-half-minute chunk of the song and sets it to a windblown haze of wintry imagery. It’s hard to see what’s going on at any given moment, but Bush seems to be t... more info