“Kate Tempest continues to be a vital force on The Book of Traps and Lessons”
“On her last album, 2016’s ‘Let Them Eat Chaos’, Kate Tempest zoomed in on a single south London street at 4:18am, and captured the mundane, everyday loneliness of seven disconnected strangers in a city crammed with strangers. Honing in on the minuscule details – a novelty doorbell, a lone slipper, a lion’s mouth door-knocker – there was a glimmer of hope at its heart. Tempest actually began work o”
“While Kate Tempest’s first two albums– 2014’s Everybody Down and 2016’s Let Them Eat Chaos - were each absorbing and impressive enough to be Mercury-nominated, there was a sense that at times their discordant post-dubstep soundscapes obscured the power of her lyrics. Her third finds Tempest hooking up with Rick Rubin, and the effect is revelatory. Rubin has largely excised the beats and prominent ”
“Kate Tempest’s Let Them Eat Chaos (2016) was already an incisive, incendiary political piece on its release. Her lyrics conjured all the anxiety and anger whirling around our island, and expressed your own fears even better than you could. Its narrative of a group of individuals in a high-rise being shaken out of themselves by a storm was a clever device that brought its themes of oppression and i”
