Iceage Announce New Album, Share Sky Ferreira Collaboration and U.S. Tour Dates
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Danish post-punk band Iceage have revealed the details of their forthcoming album, Beyondless, out on May 4 via Matador Records.
After the release of “Catch It” last month, their first new single since 2013’s Plowing Into The Field of Love, the band has shared a new track, “Pain Killer” featuring Sky Ferreira—the first guest vocalist to appear on an Iceage track.
On “Pain Killer,” frontman Elias Bender Rønnenfelt and Ferreira draw on the glaring parallels between love and drug addiction in a funky, brass-filled take on the band’s traditional brash, post-punk sound. The pair sings about an intense, intoxicating romance, adorned with lyrics consisting of surreal and psychedelic imagery: “Like death / She takes everything / And dazes me like patent medicine / Into this strange divine / The road was serpentine.”
Beyondless is the band’s fourth LP. It was produced by the band with Nis Bysted, recorded all-analog by Mattias Glavå in Sweden and mixed by Randall Dunn in Seattle. Per a description of the album by Matador Records:
The intoxication is consistent, this has always been drunk music, but it’s less a stumbling confusion and more a sturdy heartfelt confession with each record. They have finally caught up with their ambition. Their entire charm has always rested in their running ahead of themselves with blind confidence, taunting you to follow and you follow because wherever they are going is vital, is alive; on Beyondless they are treading with an assurance that is disarming, but there is no loss of charm, you are arm in arm now, whispering intimacies.
In conjunction with the new album release, Iceage have announced March residencies in New York and Los Angeles, and dates in Japan in April, along with their previously announced European and North American tours in May and June.
Listen to “Pain Killer” below and checking out Iceage’s upcoming tour dates further down. You can preorder Beyondless here and check out the album’s artwork and tracklist below.
Beyondless Album Artwork:
Beyondless Tracklist:
01. Hurrah
02. Painkiller
03. Under the Sun
04. The Day the Music Dies
05. Plead the Fifth
06. Catch It
07. Thieves Like Us
08. Take It All
09. Showtime
10. Beyondless
Iceage Tour Dates:
March
22 – Brooklyn, N.Y. @ Kinfolk
23 – Brooklyn, N.Y. @ Kinfolk
24 – Brooklyn, N.Y. @ Babycastles
25 – Brooklyn, N.Y. @ Secret Project Robot
29 – Los Angeles, Calif. @ Golddiggers
30 – Los Angeles, Calif. @ Golddiggers
31 – Los Angeles, Calif. @ Golddiggers
April
03 – Kyoto, Japan @ Metro
06 – Tokyo, Japan @ Duo
08 – Tokyo, Japan @ Vacant
May
05 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Bitterzoet
06 – Bruxelles, Belgium @ Le Botanique
07 – Paris, France @ Petit Bain
08 – London, U.K. @ Scala
10 – Seattle, Wash. @ Nordic Museum
16 – New York, N.Y. @ Bowery Ballroom
17 – Philadelphia, Pa. @ First Unitarian Church
18 – Washington, D.C. @ Union Stage
19 – Richmond, Va. @ The Camel
20 – Carrboro, N.C. @ Cat’s Cradle
21 – Nashville, Tenn. @ Mercy Lounge
22 – Atlanta, Ga. @ The Earl
23 – Birmingham, Ala. @ Saturn
24 – New Orleans, La. @ Santos
25 – Houston, Texas @ Rockefeller’s
26 – Dallas, Texas @ Club Dada
27 – Austin, Texas @ Barracuda
June
05 – San Diego, Calif. @ The Casbah*
06 – Los Angeles, Calif. @ The Regent Theater*
07 – Felton, Calif. @ Don Quixote’s International Music Hall*
08 – San Francisco, Calif. @ Great American Music Hall*
09 – Sonoma, Calif. @ Huichica Music Festival
11 – Portland, Ore. @ Mississippi Studios*
12 – Vancouver, B.C. @ The Astoria*
14 – Spokane, Wash. @ The Bartlett*
15 – Bozeman, Mont. @ The Rialto*
16 – Salt Lake City, Utah @ Kilby Court*
17 – Denver, Colo. @ Bluebird Theater*
18 – Omaha, Neb. @ Waiting Room*
19 – Minneapolis, Minn. @ 7th St Entry*
20 – Milwaukee, Wis. @ Cactus Club*
22 – Detroit, Mich. @ El Club*
23 – Toronto, Ontario @ Lee’s Palace*
24 – Ottawa, Ontario @ The 27 Club*
25 – Montreal, Quebec @ La Sala Rossa*
26 – Portsmouth, N.H. @ 3S Artspace*
27 – Boston, Mass. @ The Sinclair*
28 – Brookyln, N.Y. @ Market Hotel*
(* – w/ Mary Lattimore)