ICEAGE

FORM Presents 

ICEAGE 

Iceage’s Elias Rønnenfelt still writes from a place of grit “out amongst

the dead,” but today it is animated. "Star" is a total love song. Its

subject awakens its singer and everything around them. It whips

the scaffold sheeting; it breathes life.

The song, too, is animated: a sixteenth-note jangle pulse with room for

twinkling guitar, for slashy guitar, for soaring, and for tension. Out-

of-nowhere handclaps arrive as an enthusiastic answer, a groovy

proof.

What love makes you feel like a dying star? A star’s death is the

catastrophic culmination. A traceless extinguishing of everything.

There is no bigger event. Living inside total collapse, however, and

feeling an incandescent present, is perhaps the biggest high we

might feel.

Over 18 years and 5 studio albums, each an evolutionary jump and a new

vein of playing, Iceage have worked inside the idea of collapse. It

is a way of playing, singing and songwriting—almost falling apart

and pulling together on time. A tumbling through life in song,

catching it as it goes.