ICEAGE ANNOUNCE SYDNEY & BRISBANE HEADLINE PERFORMANCES

“Gloriously depressive Danish punk rock wunderkinds” ICEAGE have announced their sudden return to Australia to play Sugar Mountain Festival as well as headlining performances in Sydney and Brisbane.

Still giddy from the recent release of third LP 'Plowing Into The Field Of Love' and a whirlwind September East Coast tour, Iceage will lend their much-celebrated talents to Sydney’s Oxford Art Factory on Wednesday January 21 and Brisbane’s Alhambra Lounge on Thursday January 22, right in the thick of a long Australian summer. It’s enough to make you melt.

Channelling the rage and emotion of their tempestuous early releases into finely honed musicianship, Plowing Into The Field of Love features piano, mandolin, viola and organ atop Johan Suurballe-Wieth's razor-sharp guitars and the lolloping, synchronized rhythm section of Jacob Tvilling Pless and Dan Kjær Nielsen. The record has a clear, uncompressed sound, and Elias Bender Rønnenfelt's desperate vocals are out front, nakedly accountable for the words.

“Plowing Into the Field of Love finds Iceage growing up on their own terms,“ observed Pitchfork this month, adding “This is the sound of Iceage finding a balance between getting older and seeking immortality by way of leaping into an abandoned-lot fire head-first.“ It’s high praise from the musical authority that has heaped endless encouragements onto the band since formation six years ago. Having the world’s gaze fixed firmly upon your musical output at every turn must be damn near debilitating. But Danish disposition has every time prevailed. 

Fasterlouder concluded the album was “Perhaps the best thing Iceage have done so far in their career”. Indeed their influences, Joy Division, with a touch of Bauhaus and more than generous lashings of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ “literary lyrical language and guttural rumble” (The Guardian) have amalgamated to form the anthemic sound of a band in motion, unafraid of change (or expectations it would seem), filled with curiosity, musicality and ambition.

The praise is endless for these Copenhagen kids, but perhaps it was NME that said it best…“Be thankful for Iceage”.

'Plowing Into The Field Of Love' is out now via Matador / Remote Control

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SYDNEY - January 21 - Oxford Art Factory
BRISBANE - January 22 - Alhambra Lounge