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Dec 12, 2016It's a fascinating work of words, for sure, but the weight of Carey's arrangements and the Tempest's surprisingly nimble touch as an emcee make for something distinctive and essential.
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Nov 14, 2016The resonance of Let Them Eat Chaos is mammoth, and Tempest’s lexical flair is the difference maker.
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Nov 8, 2016Let Them Eat Chaos is another fantastic album by an incredible talent.
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Oct 10, 2016Perhaps 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.
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Oct 10, 2016Let Them Eat Chaos is engaging and at only 48 minutes it doesn't outstay its welcome. Tempest seems to relish the challenge of delivering a concise but complex story over a compelling variety of instrumentals.
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Oct 10, 2016Let Them Eat Chaos dazzles with its linguistically-created, vivid imagery, and ability to evoke overwhelming atmosphere through its sound.
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Oct 7, 2016Channelling 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.
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Oct 6, 2016On Let them Eat Chaos Tempest has cemented herself as a poet/rapper of the highest order, who isn’t happy just make the masses smile, but to challenge and make them think and love too.
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Oct 6, 2016It’s a vital record that’s a blast of clarity in a muddy, chaotic world.
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Oct 6, 2016The 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.
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Oct 5, 2016Tempest has delivered a compelling, thought-provoking insight into our troubled times.
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Oct 5, 2016Kate 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.
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MojoOct 4, 2016Her characters will wander through your imagination for days after the record's stopped spinning. [Nov 2016, p.86]
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Q MagazineOct 4, 2016Let Them Eat Chaos is masterful. [Nov 2016, p.107]
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UncutOct 4, 2016It has its moments. [Nov 2016, p.39]
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Oct 4, 2016She forges a mighty hammer and her album has a thunderous resonance for our times.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 19 out of 26
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Mixed: 2 out of 26
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Negative: 5 out of 26
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Feb 11, 2022