Iceage’s new LP ‘Seek Shelter’ is total rock splendor
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A decade ago, Iceage made its bones with a blistering wave of desolate punk rock. Since then, the Danish band has been impossible to pin down, reconfiguring its noisy, abrasive style into combinations as unpredictable as they are exciting. In 2014, the band mixed its music with a shot of country. In 2018, a dose of art pop. With new LP
Seek Shelter, the band finds sonic salvation, emerging with a bright new sound that finds catharsis in reinvention after a year of relentless suffering.
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Iceage barrelled into the pit on their 2011 debut,
New Brigade, like a band disgusted with the idea of creation itself, as embodied by a death-staring frontmanâElias Rønnenfeltâwho delivered his manifestos as if spitting out the last remnants of puke in his mouth. In the decade since, theyâve undergone a metamorphosis even more surprising than their fellow gutter-dwellers the Men (who turned into Wilco) or the Horrors (who became Simple Minds): Theyâve embraced the light, one creeping step at a time, and on
Seek Shelter, they complete their transformation from grim-faced nihilists to wearied soothsayers, gospel choirs and all.
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