LIONHEART

A honing and refinement of the approach from The Kick Inside, Lionheart might not have any standout songs of the standard of Wuthering Heights (though Wow does get close), but taken over all the tracks the quality is consistently high. Bush's vocals are, as always, a wonder to behold, and the sort of material tackled - ranging from the pleasures of cheesy horror movies to the last thoughts going through a fighter pilot's mind as his plane crashes and burns - sets the stage for the ambitious thematic content of future albums. A sorely underrated effort, which may have been rushed but certainly isn't sub-par.