Though many reviewers will rave over the passion and complexity driving an album’s instrumental sound, it is refreshing to hear Kate Bush’s new album and be delighted by her way with words.

Each lyric a visual, each song a story, Kate Bush spins a new yarn with each track, carefully selecting and perfecting word choice to create a masterpiece.

Inspired by the popular myth that Eskimos have over fifty unique words for snow, Bush began to craft her latest album, 50 Words for Snow, creating her own elements of language.

With only seven songs, a total of sixty-five musical minutes, Bush has managed to utilize both piano, percussion, and a surprising group of high-pitched male vocalists, producing a shockingly sweet, demure, yet exciting new album.

It garnered the praise of The Guardian's Alexis Petridis who said, “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.”

To the delight of many, the singer herself still remains a bit wacky.

Bernard Zuel of the Sydney Morning Herald wrote, “We all know Kate Bush is some weird recluse, a kind of musical version of a character you would expect to be played by Helena Bonham Carter in a Tim Burton movie. The woman sings about making love to a snowman, re-creates Molly Bloom's climactic moment from Ulysses in song, and has her son sing the part of a snowflake.”

Yet this fifty-three-year-old has listeners captivated and enchanted with what she has to say, even if she’s surprised they wish to hear it.

To Zuel she said, ''I have to say I find it totally astounding that my albums do as well as they do. It's quite extraordinary and it's actually very touching for me for the albums to be received with such warmth. The goal isn't to have a huge commercial success. So again, it astounds me that they do as well as they do.''