They Say It’s Brand New

King Krule “It’s All Soup Now”

Your interpretation of this song probably depends on your feelings about soup in general. If you love soup – if you’re truly passionate about soup – you might wonder why this guy sounds so sad about it all being soup now. Like, slow jazzy guitar chords and plaintive sax out of a noir soundtrack sad? Murmurs and whispers, howls of pain? This must be a very bad bisque, a cruel chowder, a broth of despair.

Kidding aside, I think this might be the first really good song I’ve heard about COVID. And that feels right given that I think King Krule made the best song about the initial lockdown era before it happened, but released it at the exact right moment.

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