Music / electronica

The book of traps and lessons


Reviews (3)


The observer

d. 16. June 2019

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Phil Mongredien

d. 16. June 2019

"She addresses the normally unspoken toxic relationship between love and power, most notably on I Trap You, and the shadow of Brexit looms large. And yet amid the bleakness there are regular countervailing flashes of positivity, never more so than on closer People's Faces, which over five uplifting minutes takes us from lamenting that "my country's coming apart" to the observation that "there is so much peace to be found in people's faces". It's a touching end to an always thought-provoking record".


NME

d. 17. June 2019

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El Hunt

d. 17. June 2019

"Beauty squares up to ugliness on the south Londoner's latest, and a tenderness that previously lingered on the edges of Tempest's work steps to the fore".


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d. 17. June 2019

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Sophia Handler

d. 17. June 2019

"Måske skulle man kalde det en lydbog. For både i titel, udseende og indhold er det ikke til at komme uden om Kate Tempests litterære ambition ... Går man med på de præmisser, er [Tempests tredje album] "The Book of Traps and Lessons" ikke kun en hidtil uhørt litteraturoplevelse. Det bliver også en indtalt fortælling om kærlighed og opvækst og dermed en tiltrængt udvidelse af lydbogen som genre, format og fænomen ... Men som de bedste bøger er albummet iørefaldende, både rytmisk og tekstuelt. Og som en sand klassiker tåler det gentagne gennemlytninger ... Hendes overnaturlige ordforråd sprudler simpelthen for hver sætning, hun slynger ud".