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Apr 4, 2022Kae Tempest fully opens up on This Line Is a Curve and it continues to blossom with every listen.
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Apr 8, 2022More aesthetically modern and approachable than some of their other records, though no less potent, this is Kae Tempest at their best.
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May 26, 2022May well be Tempest’s most enduring work to date.
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Apr 11, 2022Sensitive and punchy as always.
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Apr 8, 2022Tempest’s turn of phrase is constantly arresting.
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Apr 6, 2022Rife with feelings of ephemeral isolation and deep personal anxieties, they have realised a new wave of modern storytelling, forging ‘The Line Is A Curve’ as an answer to an open call for honesty.
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Apr 6, 2022The process of letting go has resulted in a record on which an acclaimed voice can explore human emotion with more breadth and depth than ever before.
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MojoApr 4, 2022A more intimate dimension to this incisive chronicler of beleaguered times. [May 2022, p.88]
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UncutApr 4, 2022Smart, sharp and endlessly stimulating. [May 2022, p.36]
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Apr 8, 2022Its fragmented nature is tied to its accessibility; each track stands alone on its own merits, albeit at the expense of the record as a whole. The more oblique lyricism allows for the possibility of wider interpretations here, where previously they have felt out of reach.
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Apr 12, 2022The Line Is a Curve functions as a therapeutic exercise in resilience and repetition.
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Apr 4, 2022What ‘The Line Is A Curve’ teaches us is that Tempest is still capable of tremendous feats of lyricism and dynamic storytelling; if its inconsistency feels a little frustrating at times, it’s perhaps testament to the flow that bound together previous records with such success.
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Positive: 10 out of 11
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Mixed: 0 out of 11
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Negative: 1 out of 11
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Jun 16, 2022dark, darker, the darkest. torturing, enduring, sincere, suspicious, gloomy, interrogator
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