Editing Kate Bush (section)

===Musical style and voice===
[[File:Fairlight.JPG|right|thumb|Bush uses the [[Fairlight CMI]] sampler.]]
Bush's musical aesthetic is [[eclecticism in music|eclectic]], and is known to employ varied influences and meld disparate styles, often within a single song or over the course of an album.<ref name="AllMusicBio" /> [[Simon Reynolds]] of ''The Guardian'' called Bush "the queen of [[art pop|art-pop]]",{{r|Simon Reynolds}} and she has also been described as [[art rock]],{{r|AllMusicBio|Cunningham}} [[baroque pop]],<ref>{{cite magazine|first= Maria Montgomery |last= Sarnoff  |title= Perfect Vision |date= March 1990 |magazine= [[Option (music magazine)|Option]] |url= http://gaffa.org/reaching/i90_op2.html |access-date= 7 May 2016}}</ref> [[avant-pop]],{{r|Sarnoff (1990)|Corcoran (2014)}} [[progressive pop]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bennett |first1=Andy |title=British Progressive Pop 1970-1980 |date=2020 |publisher=Bloomsbury |isbn=9781501336645}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Hutchinson |first1=Kate |title=Kate Bush: where to start in her back catalogue |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/may/13/kate-bush-where-to-start-in-her-back-catalogue |website=The Guardian |date=13 May 2020 |access-date=18 June 2022 |archive-date=28 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220328123819/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/may/13/kate-bush-where-to-start-in-her-back-catalogue |url-status=live }}</ref> and [[post-progressive]].<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://journals.openedition.org/transposition/7101 |title=A Mellotron-Shaped Grave: Deconstructing the Death of Progressive Rock |last=Merlini |first=Mattia  |date=October 2022|journal= Transposition|issue=10 |doi=10.4000/transposition.7101 |s2cid=250229571 |access-date=2023-08-09|quote=Indeed, such an analysis can explain why new post-progressive artists (e.g. Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, Robert Fripp) |hdl=2434/948377 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> Ben Myers of ''[[Prog (magazine)|Prog]]'' called Bush "prog's first pop star and pop's first prog star" whose "career history and collaborations are inextricably tied in with prog and her ever-evolving output has much more in common with the genre than the pop world in which she first found herself operating."<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/kate-biush-prog-and-pop-star | title="She has managed to maintain her position without ever once being sucked into the creative vacuum of celebrity culture": The less we see of Kate Bush, the more we want to know| work=Louder | first=Ben | last=Myers | date=22 January 2024 | access-date=26 September 2024}}</ref> She has been grouped with other "'arty' 1970s and '80s British [[pop rock]] artists" such as [[Roxy Music]] and [[Peter Gabriel]].{{r|Ray (2012) p.107}} Even in her earliest works, with piano the primary instrument, she wove together diverse influences, drawing on classical music, [[glam rock]],<ref name="Simon Reynolds" /> and a wide range of ethnic and [[folk music|folk]] sources. This has continued throughout her career. By the time of ''[[Never for Ever]]'', Bush had begun to make prominent use of the [[Fairlight CMI]] synthesiser, which allowed her to [[sample (music)|sample]] and manipulate sounds, expanding her sonic palette.<ref name="Rebel" /> 

Bush has a [[soprano]] vocal range.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2005-11-17-kate-bush_x.htm |title=Kate Bush picks it up in 'Aerial' |work=[[USA Today]] |date=17 November 2005 |first1=Elysa |last1=Gardner |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151014173715/http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2005-11-17-kate-bush_x.htm |archive-date=14 October 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> Her vocals contain elements of British, [[Anglo-Irish]] and most prominently (southern) English accents and, in its use of musical instruments from various periods and cultures, her music has differed from American pop norms.<ref name="Englishness" /> Reviewers have used the term "surreal" to describe her music.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://gaffa.org/reaching/i85_hifi.html |title=The Unique Poetry Of Kate Bush |magazine=Hi-Fi & Record Review |first=Sue |last=Hudson |date=December 1985 |access-date=1 October 2014 |archive-date=13 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140813023540/http://gaffa.org/reaching/i85_hifi.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Her songs explore melodramatic emotional and musical surrealism that defies easy categorisation.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Back Page |work=Hi-Fi and Record Review |last=Hudson |first=Sue}}</ref> It has been observed that even her more joyous pieces are often tinged with traces of melancholy and vice versa.<ref>{{cite news |title=Red Shoes review |work=Spin|year=1993 |last=Davis |first=Erik}}</ref>