Quote #311

The album Never for Ever came next and starts in happy mood, with a summer night of a cha-cha-cha tribute to a new-found hero, 'Delius'. The philosophic All We Ever Look For creates a remarkable and rare mood of reassurance and upbeat resignation, a Bush specialty . . . The end comes in the horrifying 'Breathing', a vision of the nuclear holocaust through the eyes of an unborn child.

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