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In the Financial Times Ludovic Hunter-Tilney gives Director’s Cut three stars: “Kate Bush’s perfectionism is a reason for the long gaps between her albums. It also appears to motivate Director’s Cut …”

In the London Evening Standard John Aizlewood also awards three stars: “That Director’s Cut is an album whose existence has neither rhyme nor reason and that its track listing borders on wilfully perverse actually adds to 52-year-old Bush’s maverick charm …“

Ireland’s largest music store has had something of a Kate Bush party, Friday. The release of this album has been heralded with an almost unprecedented anticipation in Kate’s maternal homeland, press and radio reviews abound. Tomorrow, Saturday, from 11am-12am, Nadine O’Regan will be talking to Kate on her Phantom FM show The Kiosk here. The Irish Times has given the album a glowing review. We think the front window display in Tower Records says it all. The Dublin celebrations continue next month…

Ben Cardew in Music Week doesn’t quite know how to react to Directors Cut:

“On its own merits, then, Director’s Cut is a strong album. But it’s hard to know exactly who it will appeal to: if you don’t know the original songs, it is impossible to appreciate the subtle re-work that Bush has done; if you do know them, you might not necessarily want an update …“

Four star review in Friday’s Daily Mail by Adrian Thrills:

“I won’t beat about the Bush, Kate’s still great!

Now deeper and more sultry than when she was dominating the charts with singles such as Babooshka and Man With The Child In His Eyes, it relies less on spectacular, soaring whoops and more on a natural richness and sensuality.

As a singer, Kate is growing old gracefully, but she retains plenty of her unusual mannerisms and a compelling lack of inhibition …“

Paul Callan gives Director’s Cut full marks in Friday’s Daily Express:

“She dances to her own tune, that Kate Bush. Having taken a more or less two-decade break from recording before coming back with Ariel a few years back she’s now revisiting two of her albums from the Nineties in what she’s calling a “director’s cut”, even though she had full control of both albums first time round. But who cares?“

Excellent review of Director’s Cut by Andy Gill in Friday’s Independent:

“Despite its being comprised of reworked versions of songs that originally appeared around two decades ago, Kate Bush regards her Director’s Cut as a new album in and of itself. And she’s right to: There’s a consistency and homogeneity about the 11 tracks (seven from The Red Shoes, four from The Sensual World) which echoes her work on Aerial, and which lends the project a character entirely its own …“