The hairdresser as a gate to knowledge: in a musical video with a pulsating, dancing dance divider “Know yourself”, preliminary preliminary tag of the new album “Self -Sitled”, Kay Tempest and his friends can be missed by the military, some shave all their heads.
But for the final of the song, this hairdressing salon turns into a delimited mini-contract, which offers space for all options for oddity. In accordance with this, the singer Pesot-shop-Boyce Neal offers Tennant as an invited star, even if her specific contribution is difficult to hear from music.
Meanwhile, Tempestt says – at that time, before he drew T from his behalf – with fluid hair from the TV in the room: “If you saw the young you, what would you say on the topic? I would say – thanks. I would tell them – I will find soon to find.
Immersive texts
“I tell myself that I need to hear” (I tell myself that I have to hear), the artist from a conversation describes in the portrait of the BBC “Capest” (2023), which drives him. On the new album, this is done in the form of exciting texts, which are immersed in emotional worlds built into accessible, often euphoric tracks.
Kae Tempest: “Self” (Iceland/Universal); Tour in November 2025
When the BBC documentary appeared, the album of the predecessor “a as a arage” (2022) has just been released: an album, which was elliptical, was already in the name. And also a musically request to let go – this arises from the fact that life washes.
Unlike previous works with which the storm mainly covered the shortcomings that late capitalism into their daily lives of mainly city main characters: inside, from the inside, is emphasized, but with a lot of empathy, the music looks inside this time. It is not surprising that since the years of moving are behind Kae Tempest: Trans -Formation in the near sense of the word.
Make a name for poetic cotton
39-year-old survived the musical socialization with hip-hop; At the end of zero years, Tempest made a name for herself in poetic warehouses. Success began in 2014 with the Mercury Prize album “Eve Down”. For the long poem “Absolutely New Ancient” (“completely New Classic”), Tempest has already been awarded the Ted Hughes award, the famous poetic prize of British poetry.
To date, the passion for the language is not only the speeches of the conversational word, but also in poetry, plays and essays. Tempest also published a pretty good romance with “what you can rely” (2016 ”).
Thus, this was not a shortage of recognition and attention, but the storm became more and more bad: the tour in the “Book of Traps and Lessons” (2019) was accompanied by panic attacks. A strange walk received relief – and was still just a beginning. In 2020, Tempest positioned itself as a Nebinar, initially with the personal pronoun “their/they” in German. This year, the campaign followed the trance.
Extremely productive
In addition to the BBC documentary documentary, this development is also described in the songs of two albums: for example, in a cheerful “diagnosis”, a song dedicated to Tempesists, gender dysphoria, and the following and the following are an aspect of enormous productivity. Words actually light up in this brain.
There are also various topics in the list of diagnoses, which a girlfriend, included in the relationship, is included in the relationship: “intertwined, overvalued and re-executed” are two. But: “I am more worried if we were not concerned.” How was it with real life in the wrong one?
Tempest text cascades flow densely, as always, with a voice deeper through hormonal therapy and a more demonstrative hip-hop of Swagger. More gross energy and a more relaxed, abundant overall impression can be associated not only with physical changes, but also with the fact that Tempest significantly reduced the preacher’s pose, which formed the “Lost” blow (2016).
Spröts dry bread
A song is a very pointed diagnosis of time, which perfectly describes a lot that has been deteriorating since then – and sometimes even annoys fragile dryness. The world announcement, although only sporadically, can also be found on a new album, for example, if it says: “The norm is not normal / this is construction, developed / strangling inner life and incense production.” Oh now.
These lines can be found in a song inspired by a trap, “Statue in the square”. Also, from the refrain, accompanied by hip-hop-tipid siren, Paphos is dripping: “They never wanted people like me, here / but when I die, they will accommodate my statue on the square.”
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Nevertheless, Tempest largely creates more personal access in music, especially on socio -political issues. For example, in a very serious study of the issue of whether the children should be introduced into this world: “How can I fight the ego that tells me to reproduce, make myself many / with wisdom, which says that this is not to do”-to be found in the Ninies-Pop track “Bless the bold future”.
Like Western loans
Sometimes unusual humor also flashes, for example, with the first song “I Stand on the Line”. The first rods sound so much after the accident of the western melody, in which the hero goes to the sunset, that this can be implied only naturally. Trans-formation as a heroic story, at least on a musical level, it sounds so.
Instead of atmospheric hip-hop strokes and a rather dark primer for storm, conversations, there is cascaden, there are pops with laconic, sometimes late kitschi. The twisting song about love – “Sunshine on catford” – also got into the album.
For the first time, Tempest worked with the popular producer Freyser T. Smith, among other things, known thanks to his cooperation with such stars as Adele and Stormi. When they changed the musical direction of the album – Tempest recently told British Music Magazine NME -This went about which story could only tell the “storm” and “no one else”.
And this is the story of a trans -formation. The fact that these songs are more than a umbilical show is that TemPest also works elliptically here: for example, when it comes to an exchange with a younger self. There is no identity -political reinforcement, full of liberation blows in many directions. “Self -named” sounds as if Tempest has become artistically cleared.
At the same time, social tasks are growing. Only in April, the Supreme Court in the UK ignored the rights of a trans -people as a result of an innovative judgment, which defined the concept of gender as binary. “With the whole problem we have to fight – why do trans -Tel always be on the agenda?” Asks the Bur. What is a really justified issue is not least in a wider context of the cultural struggle that is currently fighting.
