Iceage present ‘The Weak’, the latest offering from their first new album in five years, For Love of Grace & the Hereafter, out 29 May via Mexican Summer. Following last month’s single ‘Ember’, “the album’s barnburner of an opener” (Stereogum), today’s single ‘The Weak‘ throttles at full speed, surging with a jittery jangle and sudden release.
For Love of Grace & the Hereafter is Iceage’s tightest album to date, even glossy at times, but not tight enough to dull its pulse. With wordless howls, nastily detuned riffs that bend into harmony, breakdowns, handclaps, and a chaotic choral break seemingly played on pennywhistles, For Love of Grace & the Hereafter is a showcase of the band’s fundamental curiosity and trust in their instincts. Produced and mixed by the band and Nis Bysted, For Love of Grace & the Hereafter was recorded last year at Silence Studio, a modest house in rural Sweden near the Norwegian border. Twelve years ago they recorded 2014’s Plowing Into the Field of Love at the same studio; it’s no coincidence it’s the only time they have returned to a studio to cut a record. The band wanted to capture the same intense energy.
Iceage Live Dates
August
14 – Copenhagen, DK @ Syd For Solen
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