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Transparent Orange Deluxe Limited Edition – Cat: B003453601 Barcode: 602438639755
Standard Black LP – Cat: B003453501 Barcode: 602438639748
Deluxe CD – Cat: B003453702 Barcode: 602438639724
Standard CD – Cat: B003453402 Barcode: 602438639717

Record Label: Fiction

Format: Album

Genre: Alternative, Electronic, Hip Hop & Rap

Release Date: 08/04/2022

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Description

Kae Tempest the award-winning Sunday Times – bestselling author, poet and recording artist returns with the new Dan Carey produced album. It features guest spots from Grian Chatten, Lianne La Havas, Confucius MC, assia and Kevin Abstract.

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.

More Pressure, the penultimate song, is the essence of the whole album and the epiphany that leads to Grace, which is a prayer, a surrendering; ‘Please move me, please move through me, please unscrew me, please loosen me up.’ But once we get to the end of Grace, and the album, we loop back to the start – to ‘Kiss off the day with a mute mouth. Pass the commute like I can die faster than you.’ Because no matter how much a person grapples with, realises, deeply understands, about life and their place in it, we still wake up in the morning back to square one. Life isn’t solved the minute you figure something out about it. It’s a daily operation to increase your resilience, cultivate a deeper acceptance, let go of what’s chasing you and lean in to the pressures. It’s cyclical, as I believe all things are. And instead of trying to fight the cycles, this album asks us to surrender to them. To let go. • These general themes, of acceptance, resilience, surrender are also about where I’m at in my personal life, in my journey towards a greater acceptance of myself as an artist and as a human being. Being more honest with the world and my community about who I am and letting go of some heavy heavy shame, which is a glorious thing. • This album has a beautiful heart, there is so much love running through it and I can’t wait for people to experience it.

Track Listing

LP Track Listing

Side A

  1. Priority Boredom
  2. I Saw Light (feat. Grian Chatten)
  3. Nothing to Prove
  4. No Prizes (feat. Lianne La Havas)
  5. Salt Coast

Side B

  1. These Are the Days
  2. Smoking (feat. Confucius MC)
  3. Water in the Rain (feat. ãssia)
  4. Move
  5. More Pressure (feat. Kevin Abstract)
  6. Grace

CD Track Listing

  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. ãssia)
  10. Move
  11. More Pressure (feat. Kevin Abstract)
  12. Grace
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