Description
Label Review.
2018 album also available in Vinyl.
Our Overview.
The new and 4th studio album from the phenomenal Danish punk-indie group Iceage -the quartet who were in their teens when they began to gain international notoriety - have always delivered a sound that is intelligent, expressive and powerful and they do not fail to disappoint with the release of ‘Beyondless’.
Band members Elias Bender Rønnenfelt (vocals, lyrics), Jakob Tvilling Pless (bass), Dan Kjær Nielsen (drums) and Johan Wieth (guitar) return with their first new material since 2013’s ‘Plowing Into The Field Of Love’. ‘Beyondless’ radiates joy. It’s an album that shows Iceage finally catching up with their ambition, all the while retaining the rich character of the band’s brash beginnings. It’s important to pay attention to the journey, from ‘New Brigade’ (2011), a juvenile delinquent take on post punk, full of cold, distant condemnation and onto the ecstasy of ‘You’re Nothing’ (2013), shedding the more aggressive hardcore influence and dragging in more light, a tendency followed on ‘Plowing Into The Field Of Love’ (2014). Throughout their career, the band’s charm has rested in their running ahead of themselves with blind confidence; on ‘Beyondless’, they are treading with a disarming assurance but no loss of charm.
The album was produced by the band with Nis Bysted and recorded all-analogue by Mattias Glavå at Kungsten Studios in Göteborg, Sweden and mixed by Randall Dunn at Avast Studios in Seattle. The album was played entirely by Iceage with additional performances by Nils Gröndhal (violin), horns by Kasper Tranberg (trumpet),