Bladee builds tension for Sulfur Surfer with Blondie

Bladee’s Sulfur Surfer announcement remains a major alternative and internet-underground story on 18 May, with the album due on 20 May via Trash Island. The new track Blondie arrived with an eerie video directed by Joe Ward, while the album is produced by longtime Drain Gang collaborator Whitearmor.

That detail is important because the Bladee and Whitearmor partnership has always been central to the emotional architecture of Drain Gang: icy textures, fragile melodies, digital melancholy and a strange sense of devotional distance. Sulfur Surfer also includes a feature from Current 93, David Tibet’s doom-folk project, which suggests the record may move into darker, more ritualistic territory than a standard cloud-rap release.

Bladee has become one of the key figures in the overlap between underground rap, experimental pop, fashion culture and online mythology. His releases often feel less like albums and more like weather systems: cold, symbolic, hard to explain, but immediately recognizable to the people tuned into them. For an 18 May digest, Sulfur Surfer is worth including because the anticipation itself is part of the story. Bladee fans do not just wait for new music. They decode it. Source: https://pitchfork.com/news/bladee-reveals-new-album-sulfur-surfer