Christian Friedländer
Iceage have shared a track entitled Pain Killer after confirming their new album Beyondless for release on May 4th.
They’ve received some considerable support ahead of this from a doyen of their genre; Richard Hell saying, ‘I can totally imagine myself as a kid lying in my closed-door room in the dark, listening to this band and getting what I need’.
“The way a band can make a person feel seen and bring confidence, sometimes even represent an ideal,” he continues. “Or maybe I’m already all defiant and self-certain, and I identify with Iceage because they are too, and they’re who I want to represent me in music. It’s a weird combination of qualities that a rock and roll band and their recordings presents to their young crowd, imparts to them.”
“The music being pure emotion, the strong emotions of youth—anger, sadness, contempt, longing—as well as energy and sex, and the band’s demonstration that it gracefully owns and provides those things, consoling their followers in all the confusion.”
