The boys of Iceage are about to break, but that’s how we prefer ’em. In “Ecstasy,” the latest taste from their February 19 Matador debut You’re Nothing, singer-guitarist Elias Ronnenfeldt practically gasps, “Pressure! Pressure! Oh God no, pressure! Can’t take this pressure.” He sounds fantastically winded and weather-beaten while his Danish cohorts dirge on with a clanging whirlwind of nasty blackened punk. It’s the kind of wonderful chaos that made their debut New Brigade one of SPIN’s favorite albums of 2011.
The song’s video, directed by Catherine Pattinama Coleman, is fittingly wild and features the band and other Danish youth relieving pressure via myriad methods: moshing, making out, breaking shit, burning shit, flipping each other off, filming dog fights. Along with the previously heard sexually conflicted breakneck ripper “Coalition,” “Ecstasy” and exclusive B-side “A Rifle” will appear on an Escho Records 7-inch out February 5 and temporarily available at the Matador Records shop.
Iceage tour dates:
January 24 – Middletown, CT @ Wesleyan University (Eclectic House)
January 25 – Brooklyn, NY @ 285 Kent
January 26 – New York, NY @ Home Sweet Home
February 1 – Amsterdam, NL @ Grauzone Festival
February 25 – Glasgow, UK @ Broadcast
February 26 – Liverpool, UK @ Shipping Forecast
February 27 – Sheffield, UK @ Shakespeare’s
February 28 – London, UK @ Electrowerkz
March 1 – Brighton, UK @ The Albert
March 2 – Nottingham, UK @ Chameleon Arts Café
March 4 – Paris, FR @ Espace B
March 5 – Brussels, BE @ Les Ateliers Claus
March 6 – Eindhoven, NL @ Area 51
March 7 – Leipzig, DE @ UT Connewitz
March 8 – Munster, DE @ Gleiss 22
March 9 – Gronigen, NL @ Vera
March 10 – Hamburg, DE @ Hafenklang
March 20 – Vancouver, BC @ the Biltmore
March 21 – Seattle, WA @ Barboza
March 22 – Olympia, WA @ Capital Theater (backstage)
March 23 – Portland, OR @ Star Theater
March 25 – San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop
March 26 – Oakland, CA @ New Parish
March 28 – Bakersfield, CA @ Munoz Gym
March 29 – Los Angeles, CA @ Echople
March 31 – San Diego, CA @ Casbah
April 1 – Tempe, AZ @ Deadhorse Warehouse
April 4 – Denver, CO @ Marquis Theater
April 6 – Grinnell, IA @ Grinnell College
April 7 – Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock Social Club
April 9 – Madison, WI @ University of Wisconsin
April 10 – Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle
April 11 – Columbus, OH @ Ace of Cups
April 12 – Pittsburgh, PA @ 6119
April 16 – Burlington, VT @ Monkey House
April 17 – Boston, MA @ TT the Bear’s
April 18 – New Haven, CT @ Lilly’s Pad (Toad’s Place Upstairs)
April 19 – Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church
April 20 – New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
May 30 – June 2 – Austin, TX @ Chaos in Tejas
