Kate Bush is planning a return to the recording studio after more than 13 years away from music.
The singer announced she was “very keen to start working on a new album” and returning to “that creative space”.
Her declaration comes after the resurgence of her song Running Up That Hill, which featured in the fourth series of Netflix’s Stranger Things two years ago.
The ballad reached number one in eight countries, including the UK, in 2022, despite only hitting number three on the UK singles chart in 1985.
The singer told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme: “I have been caught up doing a lot of archive work over the last few years, on all kinds of different levels, redesigning our website, putting a lyric book together.
“But I am very keen to start working on a new album when I have got this finished.
“I have got lots of ideas and I am really looking forward to getting back in that creative space. It’s been a long time.
“Particularly the last year I felt really ready to start doing something new.”
Bush has recently made a short animated film called Little Shrew, chronicling the trials and tribulations of an animal caught up in conflict.
The singer started working on the project shortly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“I think it was such a shock for all of us,” she said, adding: “It’s been such a long period of peace that we have been living through.
“I just felt that I really wanted to make a little animation that would feature originally a little girl, it was really the idea of a child and the children caught up in war.”
Bush later opted for a shrew, believing “people would be more empathetic to a “little creature” than a human being.
Kate Bush has recorded two UK number one singles and seven top tens, while she has secured three UK number one albums.
Running Up That Hill, originally named A Deal With God, was chosen as the soundtrack to the Stranger Things character Max who listens to the song on repeat.
Before its meteoric comeback in 2022, the song had glimmers of a revival when it featured at the London Olympics and through Placebo’s cover, which has since appeared on The Vampire Diaries and Big Little Lies.
