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Kae Tempest is visible again on her records. Kae was last seen on the first album EVERYBODY DOWN as a character from a Shakespearean company. The stage as a place of longing and a threat is how Kae perceived the limelight back then. The two albums that followed dealt with chaos, traps and lessons, the face disappeared.
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It can be seen again on THE LINE IS A CURVE, Wolfgang Tillmans took the cover photo, it was a dream come true for Tempest. Musically, THE LINE IS A CURVE is also an opening: After coming out as a trans/non-binary person, Tempest directs his gaze from society to his own identity.
chamber music drama of the brilliant previous album THE BOOK OF TRAPS AND LESSONS appears in the pleading finale “Grace”, otherwise Kae Tempest and producer Dan Carey turn back to electronica, trip-hop, hip-hop and indie elements, but the emotional depth does not suffer from this: Who If you don’t swallow the autumn weather song “Salt Coast”, you watch too many “TV shows that taste like the feeling of pizza”, as Kae Tempest writes.
A number of guests ensure vocal variety: Lianne La Havas refines “No Prizes”, Kevin Abstract from the hip-hop collective Brockhampton complements the synth-pop of “More Pressure”. What you mustn’t forget in all this: A tribute to Anne Clark, the inventor of this kind of poetic electro-pop.
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