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Album Review: Kate Tempest - Let Them Eat Chaos

Matt O'Neill
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"A rich, dynamic album from an exceptional artist."

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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.