Let Them Eat Chaos

Kae Tempest's powerful narrative poem—set to music on their album of the same title, shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize—illuminates the lives of a single city street, creating an electric, humming human symphony.

Let Them Eat Chaos, Kae Tempest’s long poem written for live performance and heard on the album release of the same name, is both a powerful sermon and a moving play for voices. Seven neighbors inhabit the same London street, but are all unknown to each other. The clock freezes...