Szerepel az 1001 lemez, amit hallanod kell, mieltt meghalsz cím könyvben. legjobb brit albumának nevezte, két évvel késbb minden idk 3.
Kate sings lead vocals and plays piano and Fairlight CMI. Az Egyesült Királyságban duplaplatina lett. The album features her as composer, performer and producer, working with more or less complete control. It was Bush's second album to top the UK Albums Chart and her best-selling studio album, having been certified double platinum for 600,000 sales in the UK, and by 1998 it had sold 1.1 million copies worldwide. Az 1985 -ös Hounds of Love Kate Bush ötödik nagylemeze, a második number one-ja. It is considered by many fans and music critics to be Bush's best album, and has been regularly voted one of the greatest albums of all time. Kate Bush was an oddity when she burst onto the popular music scene in the late 70s, famously discovered by David Gilmour of Pink Floyd in 1978 backed by a bunch of prog rock veterans she released debut album The Kick Inside. Hounds of Love received critical acclaim both on its release and in retrospective reviews. Hounds of Love (collector’s edition) is an EP by Kate Bush, released for the 2011 Record Store Day. The second side, subtitled "The Ninth Wave", forms a conceptual suite about a person drifting alone in the sea at night. The album's first side produced three further successful singles, "Cloudbusting", "Hounds of Love", and "The Big Sky".
The album's lead single, "Running Up That Hill", became one of Bush's biggest hits. It was a commercial success and marked a return to the public eye for Bush after the relatively poor sales of her previous album, 1982's The Dreaming. Hounds of Love is the fifth studio album by English singer-songwriter and musician Kate Bush, released by EMI Records on 16 September 1985.