Let Them Eat Chaos

Kae Tempest - Let Them Eat Chaos
Critic Score
Based on 16 reviews
2016 Ratings: #27 / 1004
User Score
Based on 147 ratings
2016 Rank: #205
Liked by 8 people
October 7, 2016 / Release Date
LP / Format
Lex / Label
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CRITIC REVIEWS

100
AllMusic

On the masterful follow-up to her Mercury Prize-nominated debut, Everybody Down, British poet/rapper Kate Tempest offers a vivid portrait of human failings and worldly tumult as seen through the microcosm of an unnamed South London street at 4:18 A.M.

90
musicOMH

It’s a vital record that’s a blast of clarity in a muddy, chaotic world.

90
The Line of Best Fit

If you know anything about Tempest, you should know she’s not chiefly a musician, but a wordsmith. She forges a mighty hammer and her album has a thunderous resonance for our times.

80
Drowned in Sound

On 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.

80
No Ripcord

The resonance of Let Them Eat Chaos is mammoth, and Tempest’s lexical flair is the difference maker.

80
The 405

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.

80
DIY

Tempest has delivered a compelling, thought-provoking insight into our troubled times.

80
The Skinny

Undoubtedly a contender for one of the most important pieces of music released this year, Let Them Eat Chaos dazzles with its linguistically-created, vivid imagery, and ability to evoke overwhelming atmosphere through its sound.

80
Clash

‘Let Them Eat Chaos’ is engaging and at only 48 minutes it doesn't outstay its welcome ... Aside from a few overly earnest observations, ‘Let Them Eat Chaos’ is one of the most unique and interesting projects of 2016.

80
The Guardian

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.

gavtunes
85

Some idiot was shit-talking this artist in the comments section of an article written by The Guardian. The article was about this new wave of young post-punk bands that are utilizing talking instead of singing and he stated how much he hated Kae Tempest and her style.

Thank you idiot in the comments section, for introducing me to one of the most socially conscious and diverse voices in modern hip-hop :)

MusicGod
100

one of the greatest albums of all time.

FleetwoodGrips
94

This is one of the most profound commentaries on the current disillusionment of Europe (which is good for me as an American to get a good picture.) and the growing disillusionment of the world.

Kate Tempest's pen game is astonishingly sharp as she lyrically weaves in all of these narratives of environmental disaster, public deception, economic lostness, etc. The strictness and directness of her social commentary is enough to make rich man immensely guilty.

The production, although it sounds ... read more

Panic_Emoji
NR

Let them eat cock

thearcticchxld
80

You have legendary black male rappers
You have legendary black female rappers
You have legendary white male rappers
And I finally found a legendary white non-binary rapper lfgg

evelezt
86

They ate chaos, devoured it, regurgitate it, made it something great.

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Added on: September 3, 2016