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10.0
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The Skinny
Kae Tempest's new album The Line Is a Curve is their most open, vulnerable and beautiful yet
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9.0
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Gigwise
One of the UK’s most vital voices
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9.0
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All Music
More 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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8.0
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The Observer
Dealing with themes of love and isolation, Tempest’s genre-blending fourth album is their most grounded project to date
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8.0
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Spectrum Culture
Every corner, every nook of Tempest’s reflections on their life’s prospective trajectory is a self-affirmation, not necessarily out of satisfaction, but out of trust that everyday life has more to offer than middling routine
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8.0
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musicOMH
With guest spots for Lianne La Havas and Fontaines DC’s Grian Chatten, these relaxed and personal songs hang together loosely, making an album to immerse in
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8.0
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Crack
The Line Is a Curve is the joyful sound of an artist reaching their highest potential, on their own terms
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8.0
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NME
The songwriter and poet's fourth record is a direct and dazzling step forward, and provides a shining example of the power in emotional exploration
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8.0
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DIY
Rife with feelings of ephemeral isolation and deep personal anxieties, they have realised a new wave of modern storytelling
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8.0
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Uncut
Smart, sharp and endlessly stimulating. Print edition only
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Mojo
A more intimate dimension to this incisive chronicler of beleaguered times. Print edition only
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Beats Per Minute
On The Line Is A Curve Tempest steps down from the pedestal, takes the listener aside from the crowd and addresses them solely, sometimes in the guise of a lover, more often as a friend, always as a poet
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Clash
What ‘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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7.0
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Pitchfork
The London-based literary polymath’s fourth album fuses spoken-word poetry with skeletal production, painting a picture of contemporary UK culture in imagistic, intricately wrought verse
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The FT
Tense verses chart a difficult journey from crisis to recovery in the poet-rapper’s latest album
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