Across five albums and a bookshelf full of poetry, Kae Tempest has been a narrator, oracle, and a witness, carrying the weight of the city on their back, narrating sleepless hours at 4:18 am, mythologizing the council estate into a Greek chorus. That breadth isn't incidental. Tempest has been as prolific on the page as on record—winning the Ted Hughes Award for Brand New Ancients, earning two Mercury Prize shortlistings, and publishing a body of poetry that has made them one of Britain’s most important working poets.

Fire comes, same as London Zoo did, with a city of sounds. The album has a natural tectonic evolution texture. Loose your mind in the dancehall, but feel the dread of the times we are living. The music is catchy but also spine-breaking, ready to shatter and break.

I first heard Joshua Idehen on a UK electronic dub song by LV. I was amazed by the clarity of his voice and the sharp revelatory lyrics. As any new musical discovery, I started to search more discover Idehen as not only a great musician, but a poet, workshop facilitator, and founder of Poejazzi.