Kae Tempest and Lianne La Havas team up for new single 'No Prizes'

It's taken from Kae's forthcoming album 'The Line Is A Curve'.

Kae Tempest has dropped a second single from forthcoming album 'The Line Is A Curve'.

Titled 'No Prizes', the latest cut features Lianne La Havas, and is taken from the upcoming record, due for release on 8th April via Fiction Records.

Kae Tempest has dropped a second single from forthcoming album 'The Line Is A Curve'.

Titled 'No Prizes', the latest cut features Lianne La Havas, and is taken from the upcoming record, due for release on 8th April via Fiction Records.

Following up on the previously released 'Paradise', Kae explains: “Made a song with my good friend and mind-blowing artist Lianne La Havas. So grateful for her voice in the world and on this record. A portrait of three people getting on with getting on. I just got to keep climbing.”

You can check out 'No Prizes' below.

“The Line Is A Curve is about letting go,” Kae explains. “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.

Kae tempest is set to hit the road starting next month. The dates read:

APRIL 22 Albert Hall, Manchester 23 Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh 24 SWG3 Galvanizers, Glasgow 26 Corn Exchange, Cambridge 27 De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill 28 The Dome, Brighton 30 Roisn Dubh, Galway

MAY 1 Cyprus Avenue, Cork 3 Cathedral Quarter Festival, Belfast 4 Vicar Street, Dublin 6 Marble Factory, Bristol 8 Grand Central Hall, Liverpool 10 Town Hall, Birmingham 11 Stylus, Leeds 12 Asylum, Hull 14 St. David’s Hall, Cardiff 15 The Octagon Centre, Sheffield 16 O2 Academy, Leicester 18 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London 21 Sage, Gateshead