KATE TEMPEST

It is with hesitation that we call Kate Tempest a “spoken-word performer” because, well, we saw you cringe. Instead, let’s not classify the 31-year-old Brit as anything and just enjoy her newest project, Let Them Eat Chaos, in all its singular provocative, explosive, wildly moving glory. Tempest’s work is a blending of hip hop and poetry that’s a bit like Ed Sheeran’s flow...if he was into delivering vividly drawn, politically charged soliloquies on the state of the world today. h