Photo by Alva Le Febvre

“Life is for the weak,” proclaims Elias Rønnenfelt in the trailing moments of the latest preview from Iceage’s For Love Of Grace & The Hereafter. The Danish post-punks have already made that abundantly clear in the morbid romantic declarations of their studio album’s lead single “Star” and the crashout opener “Ember”. On this turn, they’re still not letting its crushing nature hold them back from living one out loud untethered by any debts. If anything, they’re even more freed in the spirit to do so, and that’s parlayed into the frayed form of instruments — fast-rambling guitars, roused drums, and one Hell of a recorder solo by way of Rønnenfelt’s lips. And yet, Iceage letting loose to embrace something rough, rowdy, and radical still bares with it a charmingly debonnaire lust for life that keeps rolling with the punches as smooth as can be.

Visualizer by: Alex Tults

Iceage’s For Love of Grace & the Hereafter will be released May 29th on Mexican Summer.