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 ...

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 ...

At most industry showcases, especially ones with open bar, the artist’s performance seems secondary to schmoozing, but tiny NYC club Berlin was pin-drop quiet for the whole of Kate Tempest‘s set on ...

On her last album, 2016’s ‘Let Them Eat Chaos’, Kate Tempest zoomed in on a single south London street at 4:18am, and captured the mundane, everyday loneliness of seven disconnected strangers in a ...

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 ...