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Sofa Session: Kae Tempest

Kae Tempest plays a Sofa Session for Jo, including music from their latest album, The Line is a Curve.

Kae Tempest plays a Sofa Session for Jo, including music from their latest album, The Line is a Curve.

Kae says: 'The Line is A Curve is about letting go. Of shame, anxiety, isolation and falling instead into surrender. Embracing the cyclical nature of time, growth, love. This letting go can hopefully be felt across the record. In the musicality, the instrumentation, the lyricism, the delivery, the cover art. In the way it ends where it begins and begins where it ends.'

Kae Tempest is a writer and musician from Lewisham, South London. Their first two solo albums Everybody Down (2014) and Let Them Eat Chaos (2017) respectively, were nominated for the Mercury Prize. Their third, The Book of Traps and Lessons (2019) was shortlisted for an Ivor Novello, Best Album.

Alongside music, they have released several poetry collections, a Sunday Times-bestselling novel The Bricks That Built the Houses (2017) and the book length essay On Connection (2020). Their play Paradise (2021) premiered at the National Theatre in London. The Line is a Curve (2022) is their fourth album.

1 hour, 30 minutes

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Wed 20 Jul 2022 19:30
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Music Played

  • Tom Chaplin

    Gravitational

    • Midpoint.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • The Strokes

    Brooklyn Bridge To Chorus

    • The New Abnormal.
    • RCA.
    • 3.

  • Kae Tempest

    Firesmoke

    • REPUBLIC RECORDS/UNIVERSAL.

  • Kae Tempest

    Grace

    • The Line Is A Curve.
    • American Recordings/ Republic Records.
    • 12.

  • Kae Tempest

    People's Faces

    • The Book Of Traps And Lessons.
    • Republic Records.
    • 11.

  • First Aid Kit

    Angel

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • The 1975

    Part Of The Band

    • Being Funny In A Foreign Language.
    • Dirty Hit.
    • 4.

  • Florence + The Machine & The Blessed Madonna

    Free (The Blessed Madonna Remix)

    • Polydor.

  • The Verve

    Lucky Man on vinyl

    • Virgin.

  • Wolf Alice

    Don't Delete The Kisses

    • Dirty Hit.

  • Wookie

    Battle (feat. Lain)

    • Battle.
    • S2S.
    • 1.

  • Kae Tempest

    Don't You Ever (Sofa Session, 20 July 2022)

  • Kae Tempest

    People's Faces (Sofa Session, 20 July 2022)

  • Kae Tempest

    Freed From Desire (Sofa Session, 20 July 2022)

  • ·‘±π°μ‐A‐M΄Η³ά²υ±π

    Wa Do Dem

    • Wa Do Dem.
    • Greensleeves.
    • 6.

  • Harry Styles

    Matilda

    • Harry's House.
    • Columbia.
    • 6.

  • Jack White

    If I Die Tomorrow

    • Third Man Records.

  • Don Henley

    New York Minute

    • The End Of The Innocence.
    • Geffen.

Broadcast

  • Wed 20 Jul 2022 19:30
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2