Karen O - Rapt

There aren’t too many to choose from, but the most significant of ‘Rapt’’s 117 seconds might be the last one, where Karen O - post-pouring her heart out - lets out a short, solitary shriek. It’s either the sound of her playing around, of it’s an intake of breath that took her by surprise.

What precedes is a two-minute journey that the Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer seems entirely swept up within. “Do I really need another habit like you?” she asks, as if she’s actually waiting for a solid answer. “Love is soft, love’s a fucking bitch,” is the acknowledgement, but she’s still lured in by the strange hold of the song’s subject. Recorded seven years back, chances are Karen’s far-gone from the crippling indecision of ‘Rapt’. But it’s still a song that has its place and documents a strange, scary and exciting time. With that, however short and sweet it might be, it’s easily applicable to anyone currently at a to and fro between love and deathly silence.