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.