{"id":9691,"date":"2013-05-08T00:43:53","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T07:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=9691"},"modified":"2013-05-08T00:43:53","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T07:43:53","slug":"iceage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/05\/iceage\/","title":{"rendered":"ICEAGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9692\" alt=\"Iceage-M-Review-No25\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Iceage-M-Review-No25.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Iceage-M-Review-No25.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Iceage-M-Review-No25-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>ICEAGE<\/h1>\n<p><b><i>You\u2019re Nothing<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>[Matador]<\/p>\n<p>Barely into their 20s, the four Danish punks behind Iceage have already figured out what a cruel, alienating place the world can be. They radiate rage, but fortunately, they\u2019ve found no shortage of ways to unburden themselves. On the follow-up to their stunning 2011 debut, <i>New Brigade<\/i>, the band once again smashes and refashions post-punk hallmarks, using the terse sounds of Gang of Four and Wire as rough templates for what amount to cubist reinterpretations. These 12 songs jump from breathless hardcore (\u201cIt Might Hit First\u201d) to twangy apocalyptic punkabilly (\u201cIn Haze\u201d) to the unclassifiable likes of \u201cMorals,\u201d whose moody piano chords give way to full-throttle thrashing and a pointed question from frontman Elias Bender R\u00f8nnenfelt: \u201cWhere\u2019s your morals?\u201d Not that he\u2019s got it all figured out. \u201cPressure, pressure,\u201d he gasps on opener \u201cEcstasy,\u201d a dirty slush puddle of shoegaze guitar noise and marauding drums. \u201cOh God, no.\u201d He\u2019s overwhelmed, but he and the gang will never be outgunned.\u00a0 \u2013 Kenneth Partridge<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICEAGE You\u2019re Nothing [Matador] Barely into their 20s, the four Danish punks behind Iceage have already figured out what a cruel, alienating place the world can be. They radiate rage, but fortunately, they\u2019ve found no shortage of ways to unburden themselves. On the follow-up to their stunning 2011 debut, New Brigade, the band once again [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,6454,1068,6427,6455],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9693,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9691\/revisions\/9693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}