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“SINCE The Dreaming, I’ve been trying to move away from what I felt was a more straightforward pop-song structure,” Bush told Uncut’s Andy Gill in 2011. “With 50 Words For Snow, I pushed it further, in that the song structures opened up and became much longer. Although, that was also going on with things like ‘The Ninth Wave’ and Aerial. I quite like working in these longer forms – although within them there were generally shorter songs that were pieced together as a whole piece.