Lake Tahoe

Lake Tahoe

Kate Bush

Both the second longest and second in the tracklisting of Kate Bush’s second album of 2011, “Lake Tahoe” tells the tale of a woman rising from the frozen depths of the lake as a ghost. A bare track containing not much more than drums, piano and vocals, it really pertains to the longer format of song Kate wished to explore on this album.

Similarly to previous track “Snowflake”, it makes use of the contrasting high male voice(s) against a lower female one to create a haunting chill which sets the tone of the narrative right from the outset.

A 5 minute segment of the track (from Verse 5 to halfway through Verse 10) was uploaded to YouTube with an accompanying puppetry animiation. Despite this, and the 10" picture disk released for Record Store Day 2012, the song was never officially released as a single. The limited edition picture disk features “Among Angels” as its b-side.