The entire Book of Traps and Lessons LP is as rich and wise as these cuts from these last two days. According to NPR, "The Book of Traps and Lessons feels gigantic, alive and radical. Across the astonishing record, Tempest rips your heart out, offers an assessment, and then returns it with the tools to determine what needs to be done with it."
But "reducing this album to a book of poetry discredits the heartrending production and syllabic precision," they go on. "Tempest and veteran producers Rick Rubin and Dan Carey knot simple melodic threads into long, breathing motion. There's a deceptive complexity to the blue synth chords underneath Hold Your Own, the perfect counterpart to Tempest's gentle, shamanistic manifesto: Stop craving / Hold your own."
But "reducing this album to a book of poetry discredits the heartrending production and syllabic precision," they go on. "Tempest and veteran producers Rick Rubin and Dan Carey knot simple melodic threads into long, breathing motion. There's a deceptive complexity to the blue synth chords underneath Hold Your Own, the perfect counterpart to Tempest's gentle, shamanistic manifesto: Stop craving / Hold your own."
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