5. Kate BushThe Kick Inside

When I was 12, I think my friend gave me this album and it was just so otherworldly. I’d never heard any music like that. My brother was more into Yes and The Beatles and the Ramones and Genesis. And then my sister was more into, well, later on she was into Morrissey and all those things, but at that time she was into more disco and things like that. And then Kate Bush, this voice. It was so much fun for me to stretch my voice and sing like that and also understand her performative nature. Things that probably should not work at all were really working with her, because she was just expressing herself the way she did, and because of how she took the chance to take some years off to learn how to dance. 

Later on, The Dreaming is also a big album for me because that’s when she said, ‘fuck everybody’ and built her own studio. It was also such an exciting time when Hounds Of Love came out and it was such a hit, but I had had so much experience with all her other music. It was just exciting to feel like, ‘yes, here it is’.