Kate Bush will release her album back catalogue in all-new physical formats

These new formats include two radically different presentations of the Hounds of Love album, the first – The Baskerville Edition – featuring new artwork and illustrations by the Glasgow based design studio Timorous Beasties, plus a solar powered flashing LED light.

The second new presentation of the album consists of two boxes, each containing one side of the album. Each disc features a UV printed illustration on white vinyl and a battery powered LED light. "The idea was to create a hybrid of an album and a piece of artwork you could hang on the wall. They’re based on something I designed for an auction for the charity War Child," Bush explains.

In 1993 Brian Eno asked Bush to contribute to an auction for War Child, and she came up with the idea of two identical box frames, each containing a flashing red LED with text on brass plaques. A donation will be made to War Child from each new box that is sold.

To celebrate the releases, Kate Bush has completely redesigned her website which now features new quotes from her, and specially chosen footage to illustrate each album.

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New physical versions of the albums are the 2018 remastered audio versions. All the coloured vinyl formats are mixed colour and thus each one is individual.

The Kick Inside, Lionheart, and Never For Ever will only be available via Kate Bush's US website or select independent retailers in the US, whilst The Dreaming, Hounds of Love, The Sensual World, The Red Shoes, Aerial, Director's Cut, and 50 Words for Snow will be available via independent retailers worldwide as well as Kate Bush's website.

"It’s been great fun putting together these new versions, including the coloured vinyls for independent record stores. They’ve been designed as a ‘set’. It’s very exciting to see the resurgence of appreciation for the physical presence of albums released on vinyl. It’s how it’s always been for me, especially when I was a teenager. The whole buzz of the record store was part of the experience. Buying an album was an event. There’s a special emotional connection that happens between the possessor of an album, the music and the artwork, when it exists in the real world. It’s something we can treasure in a unique way.”