Everybody Down | Loppylugs

Submitted by Glyn Lewis on 29 October 2014 - 9:44pm

We nominated albums from the Mercury Music Prize shortlist 2014

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Artist:

Kate Tempest

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a_158

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Year:

2 014

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0000

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Track-listing:

Marshall Law*The Truth*Lonely Daze*Chicken*The Beigeness*Theme From Becky *Stink*The Heist*To The Victor The Spoils*Circles*A Hammer*Happy End

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Nominator:

Bean

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m_62

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2 014

Spotify-URL:

7D7AbNgs6SWCiS9iLS0uG1

Short-title:

everybodyDown

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u_1

Meeting-date:

Wednesday, 11 February 2015

MusicBrainz-URL:

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album

Metacritic-URL:

everybody-down/kate-tempest

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Kate-Tempest-Everybody-Down/master/711138

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Everybody_Down

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75

reviewed by

Glyn Lewis

It’s yours when you’re ready to receive it

4-5-10

7

It’s something that you can actually believe in, in spite of its flaws. There’s a huge narrative emphasis in this work, which is massively impressive but I do think that the usual rule applies of: a story once told loses its intrigue and it doesn’t sit easily within an album setting, where it will get repeated a number of times. However, there are great details, observations, vignites within the work that work well on their own and do bear repeated listens. It really is a fine quality work from a lyrical point of view, vivid and believable.

The music has, at times, a sort of afterthought feel to it, where it just doesn't really cut it. When it does work well, combined with these fine words I really think you have some astonishing and fantastic material.
73

reviewed by

Richard Norbury
64

reviewed by

Neil Hornsey

Oh Katie

This is more about the story than the music, which for someone who generally only listens to the music is troublesome. It's clever hip hop, but I can't help feeling that it could have been a phenominal album if more attention had been paid to the musical side. The message is there, the lyrics are there, it just needs some clever production to make it an enjoyable repeat listen.
60

reviewed by

Matthew Baker

Music from the street(s)

An interesting project: poet teams up with producer.

In that respect this is not a typical album by a music artist. The clever world play stops the interest waning over repeated listening even though it is a narrative based album. Musically ok but not the most amazing thing.

Clearly a talented girl.