Classic artist trick when you want an album to be particularly authentic: At the beginning, a tape is inserted, a needle is placed on the record player, a car door is slammed shut. Then the listener is alone with her hero. Very private, very close. Sido came up with something else: the native of East Berlin, who first wanted to be a masked bourgeois terror, then a friendly savior with Fielmann glasses, is accompanied in the intro of his new album PAUL in group therapy.
So now it’s getting honest, he wants to say, maybe also sad and ugly, now there’s the real Paul Würdig. That’s his real name. So it’s about fear of failure, about dysfunctional parent-child relationships and very often about problems with drugs, for the consumption of which Sido of course has a thousand and one pictures ready. Musically, it’s all solid contemporary German rap average: Sido tells his stories to beats that are sometimes subdued, sometimes crooked, sometimes simply leaning back and hissing hi-hats, and it’s more Sido-like than it’s been for a long time.
Yes, sometimes he’s back, the old Aggro-Berliner, who could be both seriously angry and grimly funny like no other. When he barks a politically incorrect “Fuck you” after his father (“I really wanted to go fishing with you again, you spat”) it has a lot of power. Other attempts to disguise injuries as provocations – or vice versa? – have an accident (see: “Feelings suppressed like Africa”). Let’s practice again!
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