Bladee’s Sulfur Surfer opens with spiritual, high-stakes declarations and uses production by Whitearmor to balance introspective, blown-out doomerism with softer, ethereal tones. Fakemink’s Terrified arrives as a surprise LP after a mixtape, with a rollout built on theatrics, secrecy, and showmanship, including comparisons to Dante’s Inferno and a dramatic release-date announcement. The album’s sound blends textures drawn from bloghouse, indie rock, cloud rap, and other influences. Eli’s Girl Of Your Dreams (Not a Dream Anymore) is also included among notable new streaming releases.
"From the opening bars of Bladee's eighth studio album, the stakes are as high as heaven. "I hereby declare war on the evil star, I demand it's defeat," he repeats as a mantra on the opening title track, delving further into the spiritual imagery he's toyed with over the past decade. Produced in full by fellow Drain Gang member Whitearmor, Sulfur Surfer toes the line between the introspective, blown-out doomerism of Cold Visions and the softer, more ethereal tones of 2022's Crest."
"After announcing his frenetic, flex-heavy mixtape The Boy Who Cried Terrified in January, Fakemink unloaded another surprise: he also had an LP, Terrified, on the way. The rollout preceding the album has been all theatrics, no brakes, from his comparison of its structure to Dante's Inferno to the release date announcement, which arrived courtesy of a British Royal Guard marching onstage at Rolling Loud with flags boasting "May 22.""
"For anyone who has followed the not-so-bedroom-anymore rapper's rise, this pastiche of showmanship and secrecy will come as no surprise-and the music itself synthesizes a similar mix across textures pulled from bloghouse, indie rock, cloud rap, and more."
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