Everybody Down is Kate’s debut solo album, recorded with long-term collaborator and producer Dan Carey. In a burst of intense creativity, they put down the whole twelve track album in a fortnight having spent almost a year developing the characters and story. The result is a revelation. Tempest takes the tropes of the hip hop story – drugs, money, gangsters – and brings them to life in a whole new way, a London way, but also a completely personal way, where she inhabits the different characters and shows the boredom and fear in their lives rather than some faked glamour, shows more than anything their need for love. Carey, meanwhile, sculpts soundscapes that pay tribute to the roots of hip hop while melding into the themes Tempest addresses, tough and gritty but intensely musical, the sound of a wet winter’s night out in London.