Copenhagen’s Iceage return with their fourth album, Beyondless, on 4th May. After the release of ‘Catch It’ and ‘Pain Killer’ (which featured Sky Ferreira), the band have now given us another taster of what to expect from their next album with the release today of ‘Take It All.’
With hints of Joy Division thanks to the song’s powerful industrial undertones and the Ian Curtis-like intensity of Elias Bender Rønnenfelt on vocals, this is a song that expands and soars before deconstructing itself amidst the transience of Nils Grøndahl’s violin.
Lyrically, the song rages: “While there was an air of a paradigm shift / And men were dying for the death of the west…” With lyrics like this becoming even more profound as the song builds to an emotively shattering conclusion, the band sound more assured and experimental than ever. ‘Take It All’ is a bold shift-change, with post-punk undertones meeting an almost Krautrock-like juncture at times.
The four piece – friends since childhood – have grown in confidence and cohesion enormously over the last few years, being bolder in both production and sound. Their latest is a striking progression and one of their strongest to date.
