Is there any artist more suited to soundtracking this time of year than Kate Bush? With it being such a fanstastic October, colours blazing all around, Kate's top of the pops with me (closely followed by Cat Stevens, whose voice is like leaves falling from trees).
Her songs conjure up autumnal, dark, magical, November scenes, involving hedgerows, thickets, misty fields, mellow orchards, wrapped up in red, rolled gold, olive, umber, black, dark green, scorched earth, village green, pear yellow, burnt orange, purple and scarlet. Her voice is spooky and ethereal. How perfect. This time of year life should be like the cover to Never Forever.
Songs like Moving, Hammer Horror, Cloudbusting, The Wedding List, Breathing and of course Wuthering Heights are made for dark afternoons and foggy mornings. There's none better.
Who's providing the sounds for you this autumn?
