It's return to a leaner, punchier sound, blending post-punk energy with strong melodies and darker lyrical themes. While it’s less grandiose than Seek Shelter, it retains the band’s ambition and emotional intensity.
Longevity isn’t really something we’re used to seeing in the instant gratification age. For most bands - especially for those out with the major label bubble – you might get to put out a couple of records before either packing it in or drifting onto the nostalgia circuit. But that has certainly not been the case for Danish band Iceage.
The group’s sixth studio album “For Love of Grace and the Hereafter” is yet another incredible release from a band who started out as thrashy, Birthday Party-esque doom punks and who have developed and evolved with ever record since. The new one shows off more of the band’s loves of The Pogues, it’s jangly, beautiful and chaotic. Always sounding like it could fall to pieces at any moment, as all great music should. Living on the edge of brilliance and collapse. You’d have to imagine Fontaines DC were listing to a lot of Iceage around the time they wrote Skinty Fia!
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