Iceage - You're Nothing

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1.Ecstasy
2.Coalition
3.Interlude
4.Burning Hand
5.In Haze
6.Morals
7.Everything Drifts
8.Wounded Hearts
9.It Might Hit First
10.Rodfæstet
11.Awake
12.You're Nothing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coVPmp3lmKk

come out, hipsters, wherever you are...

leak?

I like these guys and I'm looking forward to this. Decidedly not a hipster though.

like the new song!

i'm nothing!? :-(

all we are is dust in the wind

I really want to see them in New Haven in April but
am terrified at being pegged as "the old guy" in a roomful
of punk kids.

why, are you 106 years old?

Close.

just take some other old guys. or stop worrying about it, it's not like they're going to start yelling "BONK BONK ON THE HEAD" and attack you.

am terrified at being pegged as "the old guy"

i've gone to see em, so don't be a baby.

new track is so good

I'm going to see them in Philly in April; I can't wait.

new track is great, one hell of a singer. a competitor to Nick Cave Birthday Party era.

there are some other tracks from the album floating around via youtube and performed live, which aren't melodic as Coalition. or at least that's the impression with all that live chaotic sound around them.

a competitor to Nick Cave Birthday Party era

ok slow down there sparky

yeah, i exaggerated, but that's a rare voice anyway.

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/14827-ecstasy/

i'm at work - how is the song?

i'll answer to myself: awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG-T316k9gc

leaked. the first great record of 2013.
as oppose to those 2 singles, the sound is cleaner and more accessible than New Brigade.

ilm's indifference is odd.

I like it

burning hand is awesome

whole thing is streaming on pitchfork advance now
http://pitchfork.com/advance/27-youre-nothing/

(also the new matmos and eat skull are on there ... lotta good stuff)

gonna listen to this when i get home

they've got everything going for them.

i listened to this on the bus the other day, too early to say but it was good first track was breathtaking the rest... maybe didn't have as many hooks as the last album?

i think it's better than the first album (which was good)

i agree, really digging this album

2 song preview up on spotify today

burning hand is awesome

― am0n, Monday, February 4, 2013 1:11 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

word. that one and the title track are my favorites so far (after 2 listens)

maybe didn't have as many hooks as the last album?

agreed, doesn't have that anthem quality as much (so far) but definitely plenty intense

Danish quartet Iceage are the standard bearers for "hipster hardcore", that being high-velocity punk rock played not for a grizzled crowd in Black Flag T-shirts, but (ostensibly) for the kids with assymetrical haircuts.

rmde at everything in this sentence

I mean I have sympathy for reviewers assigned stuff they clearly have little to no interest in, and ithappens esp because of his heroic clowning of the human trash that leave comments underneath most of his articles, but that sentence was not fun to read

I've never heard the phrase "hipster hardcore" and it seems far removed from what Iceage are trying to do, presence or otherwise of "asymmetrical haircuts" notwithstanding.

Not feeling the record.

170 words to play with: trying to reduce context to single sentence results in infelicities. It's not about me not being interested: I was interested. Then I was disappointed.

I first heard "hipster hardcore" applied to Flats (who I thought were great live but terrible on record; bet Iceage are a blast live, too). Makes perfect sense to me.

Poor album, anyway.

did you like the first album?

I remember being intrigued and thinking they would surely get better. I didn't relisten when reviewing this. If anyone accuses me of dereliction of duty, I will lay out my recent workload for you and ask you to suggest when I might have found time.

even though the difference between them, i don't think someone who didn't like New Brigade will like Youre nothing.

thanks for responding ithappens, no suggestion of dereliction of duty I don't think.

I suspect this may have something to do with most of the discourse about Flats being by music journos/bloggers and not people who actually listen to much hardcore. don't really think of Iceage's music as 'hardcore' either fwiw but I guess these aren't strictly measurable qualities. either way I am p confident that "hipster hardcore" does not have any real traction as an umbrella term or w/e, and yeah thx for replying etc

similar to "hipster R&B", and would no doubt attract similar levels of ILM vitriol if it became a thing.

Being an early adopter of this band - thanks I should say entirely to DJ 'Punk Rock's Golden Ears' Mencap - I'm really flattered by the description of me and him as being young, fashionable and in receipt of definable haircuts.

iceage: hipster - yes. hardcore - no. more like punk/post punk.

Flats are more hardcore, yes.

yeah I mean I think I know perfectly well which bands this notional term would refer to if it started getting used but am exceedingly unkeen for that to happen xps

the direction of this thread might literally decide if I can be arsed getting my hair cut tomorrow or not

thread tending towards asymmetry, I would say, possibly with a fashionable under-cut

six page hardcore primer in the wire this month, definitely thinking about some sort of shavey wedge thing here now, maybe neck tats too

It's an OK read, that hardcore primer.

Though I'm getting kind of irritated by the repositioning of Deep Wound as one of the key hardcore bands. Cos, er, they weren't, were they? That's a question more than as assertion - happy to be corrected by someone who was up to speed back in the day.

I haven't actually been calling on them to respond …

Does that mean you would describe the imagery the band associates themselves with as more of an aesthetic thing than a political thing?

It’s more like an aesthetic thing yes, for sure.

More fascists:

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/kiss%20moneyclip%20knife.jpg

Is there any object that cannot be found among Kiss's merchandise?

a good record?

very true

hehehe

b) is this like the millionth time that some dumbass kids want to be "provocative" or something

a sneak preview of old age is growing tired of hearing yourself think this fyi

Wait flopson just used xp as an abbreviation for explanation

This is HUGE

turns out I don't get this place at all

huh i wasn't digging this but right now it's ruling for me

Just saw Iceage tonight at the First Unitarian Church in Philly.
Saw zero people sieg heil, which was nice.
The singer was stumbling, barely in control, pummeling anyone who dared encroach upon his stage.
The band was less emotive but no less intense.
Girls screamed for them to take their shirts off. They did not comply.
The band was much better live than I could have ever hoped for, and I really enjoy "You're Nothing," so that's something.

i like this band less every time i hear them

I almost ended up going to this but ended up going out drinking with people I barely know and sitting awkwardly in the corner while nobody talked to me. WIN

so an authentic "you're nothing" experience without even going to the show

That is what the singer has done every time I've seen them. They also have a lot of teenage girl fans, which isn't strange, since the band is barely out of their teens. Iceage-mania is weird, though.

Yeah, I was easily the oldest person in the room, easily double the median age of the average attendee.
Not in the demographic at all but they just seemed an odd band to attract fawning co-eds.
I can see how the singer would be a polarizing figure, but I liked his crash and burn nihilism.
It seemed genuine to me, especially as he literally battered all stage crashers and divers.
I would imagine that in a less hospitable surrounding that someone might take him up on it and punch back, but that was not gonna happen here. Even though Philly can make some grade-A assholes, this crowd was too adoring.

somehow i forgot about this record, but i'll come back to it again, i think

Sounds like lil man is lucky they got indie fans now so he's not trying to do that tuff guy crazy man stuff with a real hardcore show audience

PRESSURE

[quote]Review: Iceage live at Bowery Ballroom

On every blog in the blog-o-sphere, they are unanimously up Danish punk band Iceage’s dress. Iggy Pop has raved about them. They are young kids, making it more impressive that they are rockin’ at such a young age. Most kids in this band are around age 21 now (approximately). Well that’s the legal drinking age in America and these punks decided to drink to excess before going on stage at New York’s Bowery Ballroom for a sold out show on April 20, 2013. Although lead singer Johan Surrballe Wieth made it though the show, he was so fucking drunk, he fell over into the crowd and onto the sound monitors – that had to have hurt- many times throughout the show. Really piss poor, according to G. I would have left almost immediately, but I was stationed a few feet away from Bjork and Matthew Barney, who were also in attendance, so at least I had some good people watching. I attempted to meet the lead singer once the show was over and after such a crappy performance, you’d think he would have been nice, but he was not. Well, Johan, it sucks for you that you won’t be photographed with me because I will never see your shitty band again. Best of luck. You’re going to need it.

According2G Blog[/quote]

For the record, I didn't make a connection that the kid was drunk at the Philly show. He might have been, I guess, but he seemed to know the words and he mumbles a lot on the album anyway and he didn't ramble on between songs. In fact, the only banter he had was after some stage diver tried to have a conversation with him before diving. As the diver leapt he said to the crowd "Don't catch him."

Also, that review is ridiculous.

Also, the lead singer of Iceage is Elias, not Johan.

Yeah, I noticed that in the comments section, haha!

the tone of that review is hilarious

Really piss poor, according to G.

gonna take a wild guess that he awkwardly crowbars the name of his blog into every post he makes?

or she

I could actually look at the blog but it's nearly 1am here yknow

Well, Johan, it sucks for you that you won’t be photographed with me because I will never see your shitty band again.

ooooh

As the diver leapt he said to the crowd "Don't catch him."

I picture him saying this in the voice of a young Werner Herzog, for some reason.

Most Iceage fans I've met/known are under 23. And they REALLY love them.

he made a mistake by name dropping Iggy Pop and Bjork: it makes his criticism much less effective for most of the readers.

Out of morbid curiosity, I read the "About" page for that blog.

http://according2g.com/about

It's also hilarious. It reads like someone played Mad Libs where you randomly filled in proper nouns.

oh it's worse than that:

Written by poet, t-shirt designer, lyricist and abstract painter Geoffrey Dicker, the site is personally curated with first hand experiences in the hottest music and art events

With over 20 years of experience of meeting thousands of celebrities, rock stars and artists, seeing the top bands and art shows all over the world, Geoffrey Dicker, the man about Manhattan, aims to turn readers on or help the viewer rediscover the very best of the art and music worlds as seen through the eyes of G.

Geoffrey Dicker was born with the gift of creative randomness. He has also designed a line of American Apparel “G-Shirts,” and when he is not attending art openings, meeting the rich and fabulous or standing in the front row at Rock and Roll concerts, he makes surreal paintings.

sounds like a cool guy

http://api.ning.com/files/91uzQ6gb-mndGG-WylcWjIuQxBWFvNgoGjpSDw7bcAENrfUfxk*gtNOqSDDoEw4PPK6xlWtWE6gDbipyQ3XJwKgfiX7kkTlh/Picture0045.jpg?width=184&height=184&crop=1%3A1

More like Dickest

where's your morals????

For reasons that I don't quite understand, Iceage just played a show in a West Philly basement:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/t1.0-9/1377397_10154178136205597_4744449277046705273_n.jpg

They played exactly a half hour and I didn't recognize anything from You're Nothing though I spent all of my time as an unofficial security guy trying to keep the seething crowd away from the guitar player's pedals.

It was a sweaty, physical show for everyone. The singer spent his time bouncing between the drums and the crowd and literally hanging from the rafters while atop the drum kit more than he spent on the basement floor. It was a blast, reminded me of my misbegotten youth.

Yeah, I like this band.

Wait I just got home from that show, who are you?

That was a REALLY good show! And I am not usu all that into punk/hardcore type shows, and I was underwhelmed when I saw them in Portland 3 years ago, but they were excellent and the crowd was energetic without being too violent.

I had a lovely time! I was right up front in front of the guitarist trying desperately to protect his pedals from the masses. I stood out if you were looking - I had the longest hair of any male there and I was also about 20 years older than anyone else there.

Oh yes I know who you are! I was also right up front for most of the set (though towards the right) and had a white t-shirt that said BUTCH QUEEN FIRST TIME IN DRAG in giant block letters.

Hahaha, I saw you! I saw you when I first arrived with the wife at 7:30. We stayed for the first band and then went out and got some dinner. Nice kind of meeting you! If you do the Facebook thing, I am TheNYCNative there. Cheers!

Is there still nazi baggage hanging around this band?

(Not being flip: Genuinely don't know what the deal is - I heard the first album but didn't even realize they had a second one and it's hard to tell from this thread where it all ended up. I guess the likely answer is 'it's complicated'?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roB4hRdLlas

does it sound like the strokes or is there another reference I'm supposed to get? very enjoyable song imo

Gun Club.

good song.

Aah thx! Gun Club sounds pretty cool too.

US fall tour

http://iceagecopenhagen.blogspot.com/2014/09/american-fall-tour-2014.html