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7.2

Generally favorable reviews- based on 26 Ratings

  • Summary: The follow-up to the British artist's Mercury Prize-nominated release was produced by Dan Carey.
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Europe Is Lost
Europe is lost, America lost, London is lost Still we are clamouring victory All that is meaningless rules And we have learned nothing from... See the rest of the song lyrics
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 16
  2. Negative: 0 out of 16
  1. Oct 10, 2016
    100
    Perhaps Tempest’s greatest achievement is not to fall prey to the pressure for unnecessary revolution; her work sits more comfortably in the tradition of perfecting the groove, not changing it. That perfection might be illusion, but its pursuit can produce wonderful work, as it has right here.
  2. Oct 6, 2016
    90
    It’s a vital record that’s a blast of clarity in a muddy, chaotic world.
  3. Nov 8, 2016
    85
    Let Them Eat Chaos is another fantastic album by an incredible talent.
  4. 80
    Kate Tempest’s follow-up to the dazzling Everybody Down is similarly ambitious in scope, fired by the same compassion and delivered with the same level of energised loquacity.
  5. Oct 7, 2016
    80
    Channelling the vivacity of the Beatnik poets in her hurtling metre and arrestingly forensic imagery, Tempest unravels a modesty in the metaphysics all the more powerful for its naturalism.
  6. Oct 6, 2016
    80
    The words and their delivery are obviously the point of Let Them Eat Chaos, but they aren’t the only thing that makes it compelling. From the slowly pulsating electronic currents of Breaks to Perfect Coffee’s early Chicago house chug, the music is uniformly great.
  7. Uncut
    Oct 4, 2016
    60
    It has its moments. [Nov 2016, p.39]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 2
  2. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. Oct 7, 2016
    10
    Multifaceted wordsmith Kate Tempest takes on capitalism, gentrification, climate change, war, population disconnectedness and more inMultifaceted wordsmith Kate Tempest takes on capitalism, gentrification, climate change, war, population disconnectedness and more in talented, eloquent, storybook form in her Dan Carey produced sophomore album. Expand
  2. Feb 11, 2022
    5
    Perhaps Tempest’s greatest achievement is not to fall prey to the pressure for unnecessary revolution; her work sits more comfortably in thePerhaps Tempest’s greatest achievement is not to fall prey to the pressure for unnecessary revolution; her work sits more comfortably in the tradition of perfecting the groove, not changing it. That perfection might be illusion, but its pursuit can produce wonderful work, as it has right here Expand