If you love Kate, you will probably want get this single no matter what, and keep drooling all over it thinking about the upcoming album, but here's a quick scoop on why this is such a tasty release.

The sleeve design for starters: no glossy photos, just that beautiful drawing done by Kate's son, and the whole thing is printed on real cardboard paper, very shabby chic and very cool. Once you take the inner sleeve out, you get to see a beautiful photo of Kate, and the lyrics to King of the Hill are printed on the back of it.

The King of the Mountain is a great big song, trancey and building up to a kicking climax. It reminds me of Cloudbusting, but this is definitely new, different Kate. Her vocals start strange, with a very cotton-mouth, novocaine feel at first, but that makes perfect sense if you think about the lyrics and the Citizen Kane/Elvis story told in the song. Then she lets loose and her voice soars through these beautiful lines. I don't think Kate ever gets the full credit for how good she is as a singer, but as someone who runs in the classical music circles and spends a lot of time dissecting vocal technique, all I can say Kate's voice is top notch, perfectly controlled but so expressive at the same time.

The funky and trippy guitars and cool swooshy sound effects add flavor to the King of the Mountain. Fabulous song!

The B-side song on this single has Kate doing "Sexual Healing" and what a crazy version that is. Fast and springly, with a little touch of the swinging Roxy Music funk, and Kate sounding unbelievably girly. And it also has uilleann pipes jazzing in the background. If you never heard a Celtic flavoured take on that Marvin Gaye classic, here's your chance. It's as if Molly Bloom got plucked out of Sensual World and transported to a New York bar. Great stuff...

This single is a royal gift from Kate and a worthy herald for Aerial.

The other reviewers have eloquently stated exactly what I would say so I would only be paraphrasing them. I'm actually numb, waiting until Tuesday when I can hear new Kate songs. It's like a dream. I put her above all others (ok, maybe equal with Annie Lennox) in the pantheon of Goddesses, and I CANNOT wait to have more. KOTM is a great song. What you get from Kate is never expected, but unique. Sadly, American radio is terrible and will probably never play it. Thankfully, we have the internet and other areas to listen to music these days. I know there are others out there that are faithfully awaiting this album, and if this single is any indication, we are in for quite the treat. Welcome back, Kate darling. We missed you.

Kate Bush never does anything halfway. With King of the Mountain, her first new release in 12 years, she returns in true Kate style: ethereal, introspective, philosophical, and painstakingly precise. The track builds on a quiet folk note to rock drums to reggae guitars to a crescendo with wind howling in the background. And what tops it all off is THAT VOICE. Magic! If this is an indication of what her Kateness has to offer after the Great Sleep, then I can't wait to get my hands on Aerial!

Here's the official single fo Kate Bush's new hit "King of the Mountain," which debuted at #4 on the UK pop charts. The flip side is Kate Bush's lucious take on Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing," which is a previously unreleased track under six minutes long, not 10 minutes as amazon.com's review indicates. This is a great CD for fans, complete with an inner sleeve with a lovely photo fo Kate.

I love kate bush but didn't realize there were only 2 songs on this cd. A real disappointment...