Iceage Return With Sixth Studio Album ‘For Love of Grace & the Hereafter’

Iceage has announced their sixth studio album, For Love of Grace & the Hereafter, will be out May 29th via Mexican Summer and will release the new single “Ember” that can be heard below. Produced and mixed by the band and Nis Bysted, For Love of Grace & the Hereafter is Iceage’s tightest album to date, even glossy at times, but not tight enough to dull its pulse.

Following lead single “Star,” today’s single and album opener “Ember” formally introduces For Love of Grace & the Hereafter. The track begins as a louche warmup, a sliding run-through of chords without particular direction follows while a glockenspiel picks out a lead line. Suddenly we’re off, barrelling down the street. The song is an extended hand with a raised eyebrow, inviting its subject to race through the city in love, catching breath in an alley and then going again. Vocalist Elias Rønnenfelt’s “I love you in an ominous way” is a direct moment of clarity, until the rose-tinted melody spills into controlled mayhem. The accompanying video was directed by the band and Ira Rønnenfelt.

Iceage – For Love of Grace & the Hereafter
Out May 29th on Mexican Summer
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Tracklisting:
1. Ember 
2. Match Head Girl 
3. The Weak
4. No Fear 
5. Salve for Every Sore
6. mother-of-pearl 
7. Tender Blades 
8. 1835 
9. Star 
10. Lifetime 
11. Holy Water
12. True Blue