Let Them Eat Chaos
Tempest's anger is Old Testament but the issues are all about our modern culture as she rails against gentrification, colonisation, wars, the police and our collective disconnectedness.
Making sense of troubled times, Kate Tempest follows up a Mercury Prize-winning album with bleak social commentary, tempered by a final hopeful plea.
On the masterful follow-up to their Mercury Prize-nominated debut, Everybody Down, British poet/rapper Kae Tempest offers a vivid portrait of human failings and worldly tumult as seen through the microcosm of an unnamed South London street at 4:18 a.m.
Tempest’s second solo album is her most damning and apocalyptic work to date: raw and gritty, acting as a platform for a poetic tale of life in turmoil.
Kate Tempest isn't the first to blur the lines between spoken word, performance poetry, and rap. However she does seem unique in her unwillingness to
The poet without borders delivers a second album that places its rich cast of characters against a backdrop of global crisis
Performance poetry might still be a niche concern, but Kate Tempest now gets to do hers on primetime TV – and deservedly so