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Kae Tempest The Line Is A Curve Vinyl LP Transparent Orange Colour Assai Obi Edition 2022

Kae Tempest The Line Is A Curve Vinyl LP Transparent Orange Colour Assai Obi Edition 2022

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Cat no. B3453601A
  • Assai Records Exclusive Japanese OBi*
  • transparent orange colour vinyl
  • Hand-numbered*
  • Limited to maximum of 200 copies*

*Exclusive to Assai Records, limited to 1 copy per customer/address. No supply to resellers.

Tracklist:

1. Priority Boredom 
2. I Saw Light (feat. Grian Chatten)
3. Nothing to Prove
4. No Prizes (feat. Lianne La Havas)
5. Salt Coast
6. Don't You Ever
7. These Are The Days
8. Smoking (feat. Confucius MC)
9. Water In The Rain (feat. assia)
10. Move
11. More Pressure (feat. Kevin Abstract)

Kae Tempest is an award-winning Sunday Times bestselling author, poet and recording artist. Tempest won the 2013 Ted Hughes Award, was nominated for a Costa Book Award and a BRIT Award, has been shortlisted for the Mercury Prize twice nominated for two Ivor Novello Awards. They were also named a Next Generation Poet by the Poetry Book Society, a decennial accolade. They released their fourth studio album, The Book of Traps and Lessons, in 2019, Executive Produced by Rick Rubin.

'The Line Is A Curve is about letting go. The core of the record is that the pressures we face do not always have to be heavy burdens, but can be reframed; the more pressure a person is under, the greater the possibility for release'.

'The album plays like a chronicle of pressures - the mind-numbing pursuit of a comfortable life, the eternal striving for more, the pressures of the city, the country, the times. The pressures of maintaining relationships, of battling illness, addiction, poor mental health, the vacuous life of our online selves. As we move through these chronicles though, the mood brightens. The musicality becomes more expansive as the lyrical horizon broadens and we glimpse coastlines, high streets, scrap yards, train stations in the rain; the entire album begins to let go. We encounter the contributions of artists who I love and admire, guest vocalists and instrumentalists, and so we defeat the sense of isolation felt in the opening track with a sense of deeply connected community'. - Kae Tempest