immediately, from this description, I thought ‘Kaputt’ would be one of the records covered in this column. But I guess that’s less about ‘soul-searching’ than ‘a soul has been found and it is vaporous.’
It would have felt more tenuous even than the Drake inclusion :)
My sense with Kaputt is that it doesn’t travel particularly well: at least some of its power relies on a particular past, and on that past having particular overtones, and if that’s not so familiar or resonant it doesn’t work quite as well.* Like, I didn’t listen to sax-y soft rock in the 80s but I didn’t NOT listen to it, it isn’t something which could ever code as horrible or transgressive to me, so when I listen to Kaputt I feel there’s a whole strata of semiotic meaning I’m just not able to detect first-hand.
Plus I can’t stand his voice.
*I think something very similar is true of the PJ Harvey record.
