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.