Kate Tempest – The Book Of Traps And Lessons (2019) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Kate Tempest – The Book Of Traps And Lessons (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:03 minutes | 804 MB | Genre: Electronic, Spoken Word, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Republic Records

Passionate spoken words and lyrical prose match with beats flooding in on a wave of emotion.

Poet, performer, lyricist, rapper, artist, writer and playwright Kate Tempest has received and been nominated for multiple awards (including the Mercury / Brit Awards / the Ted Hughes prize…) This is the third studio album from Kate Tempest, built over the last five years with Rick Rubin and Dan Carey. These are the teaches of Tempest – evocative vocals serve up a slice of grimy everyday life. Words flow turning the mundane into poetry and a flowing lyric-garden of beauty. The distinctive tones of Kate Tempest are augmented with jazz and beats musical bits and pieces into a sprinkling of gritty 100s and 1000s.Stark, intimate, and crammed with difficult truths, Kae Tempest’s third album holds up a mirror to reveal our most vulnerable reflections. Like a beat reporter to the soul, the London native investigates with uncanny intuition the interior dialogues, self-destructive habits, and beautiful follies of human nature and spits them back at us in gut-punch moments of warning, recognition, and clarity. Nearly three years on from 2016’s similarly affecting Let Them Eat Chaos, The Book of Traps and Lessons arrives at an even grimmer moment in time, traversing rampant racism, social media escapism, political division, climate change, and Britain’s ongoing post-Brexit struggles. While each of those subjects can be found within this 11-song cycle, their immediacy is balanced by the lingering sentiments of solidarity and love. Set to an elegantly minimalist backdrop of pianos, organs, strings, and textured beats by longtime collaborator Dan Carey and tonal field guide Rick Rubin, Tempest inhabits the mic with their signature nuance, fluidly transitioning between spoken word and rapped verse as each song segues deftly into the next. They play the various roles of narrator, confessor, confidant, and prophet, warning that “we should be fasting two days out of seven, sleeping in shifts with the others who share our households” but are instead “online, venting our outrage, teaching the future that life is performance and vanity.” Effectively delivered a cappella with no music or beat, that bleak centerpiece “All Humans Too Late” gets its counterweight in the defiant “Hold Your Own,” which advises to “know the wolves that hunt you, in time they will be the dogs that bring your slippers, love them right.” Tempest’s talent in the literary world as a poet, novelist, and playwright has been justly celebrated, but they are still at their best as a performer, delivering their work verbally, lingering here and there, quavering when needed, framing questions, summoning anger, then letting the needle drop right on the beat. Emotionally, there’s a lot to unpack, but the need to feel and engage more deeply is one of their primary decrees, and this powerful album is a lesson worth learning. – Timothy Monger

Tracklist:

01. Kate Tempest – Thirsty (03:26)
02. Kate Tempest – Keep Moving Don’t Move (05:49)
03. Kate Tempest – Brown Eyed Man (03:05)
04. Kate Tempest – Three Sided Coin (04:02)
05. Kate Tempest – I Trap You (03:32)
06. Kate Tempest – All Humans Too Late (03:06)
07. Kate Tempest – Hold Your Own (04:07)
08. Kate Tempest – Lessons (04:04)
09. Kate Tempest – Firesmoke (03:34)
10. Kate Tempest – Holy Elixir (04:56)
11. Kate Tempest – People’s Faces (05:17)

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