{"id":7447,"date":"2021-02-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.7thlevelmusic.com\/?p=7447"},"modified":"2021-02-19T14:38:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T19:38:09","slug":"iceage-return-with-new-single-vendetta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.7thlevelmusic.com\/?p=7447","title":{"rendered":"Iceage return with new single – “Vendetta.”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Photo by Fryd Frydendahl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Copenhagen\u2019s Iceage <\/strong>– Elias Bender R\u00f8nnenfelt<\/strong>, Jakob Tvilling Pless<\/strong>, Johan Surrballe Wieth<\/strong>, and Dan Kj\u00e6r Nielsen<\/strong> – announce their fifth album, Seek Shelter<\/em><\/strong>, out May 7th on Mexican Summer<\/strong>. Today, they present a new single\/video, \u201cVendetta<\/strong>,\u201d which follows \u201cThe Holding Hand<\/strong>,\u201d “an ominous transmission from a band who can summon a storm like few others\u201d (Pitchfork<\/em>). Enrolling Sonic Boom<\/strong> (Pete Kember of Spacemen 3) to produce the record and an additional guitarist in the form of Casper Morilla Fernandez<\/strong>, Seek Shelter<\/em> sees Iceage\u2019s propulsive momentum pushing them in new, expansive, ecstatic directions. A decade on from their first record, Iceage continue to harness their lives together through music.
 
R\u00f8nnenfelt casts the influence of Kember, the band\u2019s first outside producer, as that of a sparring partner, another wayward mind to bounce ideas off of (along with Shawn Everett<\/strong>, who mixed the record) to help shape the sound. For Seek Shelter<\/em>\u2019s story of scorched-earth salvation, Iceage\u2019s songwriting embraces conventional structures more conspicuously than it has in the past. The dirge-like drone that opens the record gives way to a wall of reverb that sounds fuller and brighter than anything they’ve committed to tape, signalling a clarity of clouds breaking. The Lisboa Gospel Collective<\/strong>, who joined the band for two tracks on the final day in the studio, provide a new scale to R\u00f8nnenfelt\u2019s incantations.
 
As with all Iceage\u2019s previous albums, R\u00f8nnenfelt stowed away for a set period of weeks and wrote the lyrics for Seek Shelter<\/em> in one shot. Here, his lyrics reach grand heights despite its classic opacity \u2014 he sings of taking shelter, of tranquil affections that threaten to combust, and of a limp-wristed god with a cavalcade of devotees in search of relief. His expressionist imagery consistently hinges on the divine,  a natural result of his desire to take a kernel of ordinary emotion and, as he explains, \u201cblow it up like a balloon.<\/em>\u201d
 
On the slow-grooving new single, \u201cVendetta,\u201d an electronic beat and blues signatures break through to the front. R\u00f8nnenfelt comments, \u201cCrime is the undercurrent that runs through everything. If you don\u2019t see it, you\u2019re not looking. In its invincible politics, it is the glue that binds it all together.  \u2018Vendetta\u2019 is an impartial dance along the illicit lines of infraction<\/em>.\u201d
 
The accompanying video features the band, as well as actor Zlatko Buri\u0107<\/strong>. Director Jonas Bang<\/strong> explains, \u201cWe wanted it to be less 1:1 story and more short format collage-ish – like if you flick through a chapter in a book reading a bit here and there<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 
Watch Iceage\u2019s Video for \u201cVendetta\u201d<\/strong><\/a>
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While recording, rain dripped through cracks in the ceiling of Namouche<\/strong>, the dilapidated wood-paneled vintage studio in Lisbon where Iceage set up for 12 days. The band had to arrange their equipment around puddles. Pieces of cloth covered slowly filling buckets so the sound of raindrops wouldn\u2019t reach the microphones. Kember arranged garden lamps for mood lighting in the high-ceiling space. It was the longest time Iceage had ever spent making an album. When the rain had stopped, Seek Shelter<\/em> revealed itself as a collection of songs radiating warmth and a profound desire for salvation in a world that\u2019s spinning further and further out of control. Even R\u00f8nnenfelt was surprised with what they were able to create together. \u201cWhen we started, I think we were just lashing out, completely blindfolded with no idea as to why and how we were doing anything. For Seek Shelter, we had a definite vision of how we wanted the album to be carved out, yet still the end result came as a surprise in terms of where we sonically were able to push our boundaries.” <\/em>He\u2019s speaking of the new record and also of their entire existence as a band, a travelogue that has catapulted these four friends far past the horizons of punk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Watch \u201cThe Holding Hand\u201d Video<\/strong><\/a>
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Pre-order\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>Seek Shelter<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
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Seek Shelter<\/em>\u00a0Tracklist<\/strong>
1. Shelter Song
2. High & Hurt
3. Love Kills Slowly
4. Vendetta
5. Drink Rain
6. Gold City
7. Dear Saint Cecilia
8. The Wider Powder Blue
9. The Holding Hand<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keep your mind open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Don’t forget to subscribe while you’re here.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Thanks to Jessica at Pitch Perfect PR.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Copenhagen\u2019s Iceage – Elias Bender R\u00f8nnenfelt, Jakob Tvilling Pless, Johan Surrballe Wieth, and Dan Kj\u00e6r Nielsen – announce their fifth album, Seek Shelter, out May 7th on Mexican Summer. Today, they present a new single\/video, \u201cVendetta,\u201d which follows \u201cThe Holding Hand,\u201d “an ominous transmission from a band who can summon a storm like few others\u201d (Pitchfork). Enrolling Sonic Boom (Pete Kember of Spacemen 3) to produce … Continue reading Iceage return with new single – “Vendetta.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[131,33,15],"tags":[4165,1631,4162,4164,4163],"class_list":["post-7447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alt-rock","category-news","category-rock","tag-denmark-bands","tag-iceage","tag-iceage-band","tag-iceage-seek-shelter","tag-iceage-vendetta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p74gjp-1W7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.7thlevelmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.7thlevelmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.7thlevelmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.7thlevelmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.7thlevelmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.7thlevelmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7449,"href":"https:\/\/www.7thlevelmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7447\/revisions\/7449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.7thlevelmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.7thlevelmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.7thlevelmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}