Christian Friedländer
Iceage have shared a video for The Day The Music Dies, a single which will be the last to preempt their new LP Beyondless ahead of its release on May 4th.
For a band of their ilk, the tribute paid by Richard Hell for this album is about as treasured as it gets. “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,” he said.
“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.”
