I've been having this recurring dream for as long as I can remember. I'm running late-to school, to the bus stop, to my childhood home. And I'm too easily distracted to ever reach my final destination. Instead, I fiddle with the memory fragments that are placed where they shouldn't be: the old classrooms behind my bedroom door, the uncle sitting next to me asking for my homework.
You may know Carl-Mikael Berlander as Gud, or Yung Gud: a self-described misanthrope and an architect of cataclysmic pain music from Yung Lean, Ecco2K, and Rx Papi. When the 30-year-old Stockholm producer finds reprieve, he can turn R&B pastiche into pageantry and make car sex sound like astral projection. On this brighter side of the spectrum, hedonism lingers like chronic illness.