# @thefader on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C_1WaXWRdlp
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/23188889-thefader-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-09-12T22:18:53.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The FADER (@thefader) — https://gondola.cc/thefader

## Caption

“The world is a trash island,” dg_bladee told Jack Angell in a rare 2019 interview with The FADER. “You have the power to create your own reality.”

Trash Island, a full-length collaboration with the other three members of Drain Gang — falsetto stylist Ecco2k, fried monotoner Thaiboy Digital, and Whitearmor, the producer whose gummy, cloudy beats and absurd work rate glue everything together — arrived five days before that interview’s publication, and five years ago today. Recorded in Thailand due to Thaiboy’s inability to return to Sweden following his deportation in 2015, it’s the last album they’ve released as a full group to-date. It’s also by far the tightest, most cohesive project they’d made as a group, and the one that elevated their strange brand of positive pessimism beyond its initial, niche market.

Read hamiltonthemixtape’s fifth-anniversary essay at the link in bio, or head to TheFADER.com.

📸 arcinsagdic for The FADER

#DrainGang #TrashIsland #Bladee whitearmorx

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