“I have lots of ideas”

The resurgence of Kate Bush in 2022 is now well behind us, but the resurgence of Kate Bush in 2024-2025 could be just around the corner. Bush releases a new music video today for an old song and speaks of an urgent desire to record new music.

The video is called “Little Shrew (Snowflake)”. It's “Snowflake,” the opening track from Bush's latest album, 2011. 50 words for snowwhich features the voice of Bush's prepubescent son and follows a Caucasian pygmy shrew as he wanders through war-torn territory. Bush began conceiving the video in 2022, when war broke out in Ukraine. In a post on her website, she said she wanted to create a video to express the suffering of children in war. She believed that people could be more empathetic toward an animal than a human, so she designed a shrew character and began developing it with Jim Kay, the illustrator behind the book A monster is callingand the animation company Inkubus.

“All wars leave terrible scars: shattered lives, families torn apart, life-altering injuries, trauma and loss on a massive scale – but it is the children who, in many ways, suffer the most,” Bush writes. “Their past, present and future merge in fear and uncertainty.” She adds: “As you watch the animation, I would like to ask you to make a donation to War Child or another charity that helps children in war.”

In an interview with the BBC promoting the new video, Bush said she intended to write and record new music for the first time since then 50 words for snow. When asked if she was already working on new music, she clarified: “Not at the moment, but I've been busy with a lot of archive work in the last few years, redesigning our website and putting together a book of lyrics.” And I can't wait , to start working on a new album when I'm done with it. I have a lot of ideas and I'm really looking forward to getting back into this creative space, it's been a long time… Most of all [in] Last year I felt really ready to do something new.”

Watch the “Little Shrew (Snowflake)” video below and read Bush’s detailed backstory on the video here.