“We were just basically making noise,” Bladee remembers. When he was 11 years old, he formed a punk band with his childhood friend and frequent collaborator ECCO2K. I find it weird.”īorn Benjamin Reichwald, Bladee grew up in the Skanstull neighborhood in southern Stockholm his mother was a school teacher and his father worked in restaurants. “It’s hard because I really don’t like to talk about myself. But once we finally got on the phone, he began to open up. He’s refused to do virtually any press in the past quite fittingly, it took multiple attempts for me to schedule this call with Bladee. The 25-year-old Swedish artist is notoriously enigmatic his lyrics are abstract (“Eat the night, I feel like Kirby, I'm burning”), his visuals cryptic (just watch the music video for “For You”), and his social media presence is perplexingly arcane (he recently tweeted, “Chapter 1 A trash star in a trash world”). There’s something uncanny about being on FaceTime with Bladee.
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