Iceage announce new album ‘For Love of Grace and the Hereafter’ and share single ‘Ember’
Danish punk band Iceage have announced their sixth studio album, titled For Love of Grace and the Hereafter, and have released a new track, ‘Ember’.
The new single also sits as the album opener, and is described by a press release as an “extended hand with a raised eyebrow, inviting its subject to race through the city in love”.
In keeping with the poetic aura of frontman Elias Rønnenfelt, who has released two solo albums during the band’s hiatus, the song hinges on the admission, “I love you in an ominous way.”
Produced alongside longtime collaborator Nis Bysted, For Love of Grace and the Hereafter is put forward as the band’s tightest and most “glossy” work to date. Still, as with their last album, 2021’s Seek Shelter, it remains preoccupied with their foundational interest in the “idea of collapse”.
Musing on the urgent, yet fragmented, work, the frontman, who wrote the lyrics in the immediate run-up to their time recording to hone a sense of spontaneity, mused, “The songs needed to be immediate, urgent, raw, and fast. We wanted to try to shed any unnecessary weight. Catching outlets of energy is what excites us the most.”
Therefore, the band, consisting of Rønnenfelt, Johan Suurballe Wieth, Dan Kjær Nielsen, Casper Morilla Fernandez, and Jakob Tvilling Pless, opted for a minimal setup with few overdubs. Nis Bysted mixed and produced the album.
In 2014, Iceage recorded their third studio album, Plowing Into The Field Of Love at Silence Studio, a modest house in rural Sweden near the Norwegian border. Last year, they returned to record their sixth studio album, taking note of the sense of return and belonging.
For the Love of Grace and the Hereafter is slated for a May 29th release.
See the full tracklist below.
Iceage – For the Love of Grace and the Hereafter tracklist:
- ‘Ember’
- ‘Match Head Girl’
- ‘The Weak’
- ‘No Fear’
- ‘Salve for Every Sore’
- ‘mother-of-pearl’
- ‘Tender Blades’
- ‘1835’
- ‘Star’
- ‘Lifetime’
- ‘Holy Water’
- ‘True Blue’
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