Photo by Alva Le Febvre

Elias Rønnenfelt has spent the better part of the last five years doing his own thing outside of Iceage, and it’s revealed some new sides of swagger in country and experimental pop that make you ponder if there’s an alternative timeline somewhere out there where he and not Harry Styles is a global pinup. Eventually, we knew he’d find his way back to transcendent post-punk eventually, though, and with “Star”, that outside perspective obtained from his own creative journey has altered the universe of sound which the Danish band inhabit.

Though deathly romantic gestures are not necessarily reframing Iceage’s style of devotion, the energy shift in its mirror ball morbidity here is what makes you believe in a beyondness version of it, even if the celestial balls of gas which consume Rønnenfelt’s heart have a finite timeline. “Erupt into a studded veil / Dying like a star / Centuries apart,” he sings. When even the cosmos are dancing in their demise, you know you’ve reached a new level of awe in your adoration.

Directed by: Thinh T. Petrus Nguyen

Iceage’s “Star” is available now on Mexican Summer.