Kae Tempest announces new album with Kevin Abstract collaboration "More Pressure"

"More Pressure" featuring Kevinn Abstract is Kae Tempest's first new material since featuring on High Contrast's 2020 single "Time Is Hardcore" with Anita Blay.

According to a press release, Kae Tempest and Kevin Abstract connected after Rick Rubin had played BROCKHAMPTON The Book of Traps and Lessons album in his studio.

The Line Is A Curve will follow Kae Tempest's 2019 album The Book of Traps and Lessons, and is produced by Dan Carey. It'll alsoo featuure contributions from Fontaines DC's Grian Chatten, Lianne La Havas, ássia and Confucius MC.

Speaking about the album, Kae Tempest said, "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. I knew I wanted my face on the sleeve. Throughout the duration of my creative life, I have been hungry for the spotlight and desperately uncomfortable in it. For the last couple of records I wanted to disappear completely from the album covers, the videos, the front-facing aspects of this industry. A lot of that was about my shame but I masked it behind a genuine desire for my work to speak for itself, without me up front, commodifying what felt so rare to me and sacred. I was, at times, annoyed that in order to put the work out, I had to put myself out."

"But this time around, I understand it differently," Tempest continued. "I want people to feel welcomed into this record, by me, the person who made it, and I have let go of some of my airier concerns. I feel more grounded in what I’m trying to do, who I am as an artist and as a person and what I have to offer. I feel less shame in my body because I am not hiding from the world anymore. I wanted to show my face and I dreamed of it being Wolfgang Tillmans who took the portrait."

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