Album Review: Kate Tempest - Let Them Eat Chaos

British performance poet Kate Tempest's extremely knotty 2014 debut album Everybody Down was a rewarding listen. Its follow-up is simultaneously neater, more expansive and even more rewarding.

Equally conceptual as her lauded debut, Let Them Eat Chaos nevertheless finds Tempest and main collaborator Dan Carey working with greater subtlety - Carey content to step back and let Tempest's words carry the rhythm on epic cuts like Europe Is Lost; Tempest leaning into the eerie musicality on melody-driven material like Pictures On A Screen. A rich, dynamic album from an exceptional artist.