The London rapper, poet and spoken word artist rips your heart out, offers an assessment, and then returns it with the tools to determine what... Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the ...

Producer Rick Rubin has pared back the effects, giving Tempest’s songs about trying to love and dance through our current crises room to reach out Kate Tempest’s latest record finds beauty amidst ...

The ghosts of poets that have recorded albums in a gasp of expectation only to suffer anticlimactic shrugs haunt us still. With notable exceptions (Linton Kwesi Johnson being the most obvious), spoken ...

The Book of Traps and Lessons is an album released with little context, or indeed, fanfare. It is an album that, really, should need no introduction. Kate Tempest is the finest poet of her generation ...

Kate Tempest’s lyrics often portray a bleak image of contemporary society. The British poet-rapper is capable of making listeners feel not just upset by the prevailing state of affairs, but despondent ...

South London’s Kate Tempest has been something of a revelation over this decade. The success of this spoken-word poet has been unparalleled in the UK, to the extent that she even received a fair ...

With two Mercury nominated albums under her belt, Kate Tempest’s long awaited third LP was destined to pack a punch. Simultaneously political and personal, The Book of Traps and Lessons was debuted in ...

Each time you hear this album, it’s like hearing it for the first time. A lyric you missed will jump out at you – and sometimes hit you so hard in the face – you won’t understand how you missed it.

Kate Tempest, Dan Carey, Jimmy Napes and Jamie Hartman lead the nominations for The Ivors. The songwriters all have double nominations at the 2020 ceremony, which is dominated by rap and spoken word.