Iceage Return With Anthemic New Single And Video “Star”

Iceage return with their new single “Star,” via Mexican Summer, and an accompanying video directed by Thinh T. Petrus Nguyen.

“Star” marks the first new music from the Danish quintet – vocalist Elias Rønnenfelt, guitarist Johan Suurballe Wieth, drummer Dan Kjær Nielsen, guitarist Casper Morilla Fernandez, and bassist Jakob Tvilling Pless – since their 2021 album Seek Shelter. 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 at once: a tumbling through life in song, catching it as it goes.

“Star” is a total love song. Its subject awakens its singer and everything around them. It whips the scaffold sheeting: it breathes life. Rønnenfelt still writes from a place of grit, but here, it is animated. As is the music, featuring a sixteenth-note jangle pulse with room for twinkling guitar, slashy guitar, for soaring, and for tension. Handclaps arrive out-of-nowhere offering an enthusiastic answer.

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.

Iceage Tour Dates

Fri. Aug. 14 – Copenhagen, DK @ Syd For Solen