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P R E S E N T S .···. ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ ██████▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██████ █████▀ Iceage - Seek Shelter ▀█████ ████▀ ▀████ ███▀ ▀███ █▓▓▓▓ ARTiST..[ Iceage ▓▓▓▓█ █▓▓▓▓ TiTLE...[ Seek Shelter ▓▓▓▓█ ████ GENRE...[ Rock CAT#....[ MEX2903 ████ ████ LABEL...[ Mexican Summer ENCODER.[ Lame 3.99.5 ████ ████ YEAR....[ 2021 QUALiTY.[ 320kbps ████ ████ SOURCE..[ WEB MODE....[ Joint Stereo ████ ████ PLAYTIME[ 42:45 REL.DATE[ 05.07.2021 ████ ████ TRACKS..[ 09 RiPPER..[ TEAM OMA ████ ████ SiZE....[ 98,09 MB SUPPLiER[ TEAM OMA ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ▄▀▀███▓▄ ▄▓███▀▀▄ ████ ████ ■ ███▓█ .···. T R A C K L i S T .···. █▓███ ■ ████ ████ · ▄▓███▓ ▓███▓▄ · ████ █████ ▄▄▓█▀▀▀│ ▓ ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ ██████▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██████ █████▀ ▀█████ ████▀ ▀████ ███▀ NR. TRACK. TiME. ▀███ █▓▓▓▓ ∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙ ▓▓▓▓█ █▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓█ ████ 01 Shelter Song 05:38 ████ ████ 02 High & Hurt 04:18 ████ ████ 03 Love Kills Slowly 04:19 ████ ████ 04 Vendetta 05:22 ████ ████ 05 Drink Rain 03:37 ████ ████ 06 Gold City 04:22 ████ ████ 07 Dear Saint Cecilia 05:00 ████ ████ 08 The Wider Powder Blue 04:34 ████ ████ 09 The Holding Hand 05:35 ████ ████ ∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙ ████ ████ TOTAL: 42:45 ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ▄▀▀███▓▄ ▄▓███▀▀▄ ████ ████ ■ ███▓█ .···. R E L E A S E N O T E S .···. █▓███ ■ ████ ████ · ▄▓███▓ ▓███▓▄ · ████ █████ ▄▄▓█▀▀▀│ ▓ ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ ██████▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██████ █████▀ ▀█████ ████▀ ▀████ ███▀ ▀███ █▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓█ █▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓█ ████ https://iceage.bandcamp.com/album/seek-shelter ████ ████ ████ ████ Seek Shelter is the sound of a tight emotional ████ ████ core unwound. Rain dripped through cracks in ████ ████ the ceiling of Namouche, the dilapidated wood- ████ ████ panelled Lisbon radio studio of a 1960s vintage ████ ████ where the band set up for 12 days. The band had ████ ████ to arrange their equipment around puddles. ████ ████ Pieces of cloth covered slowly filling buckets ████ ████ so that the sound of raindrops wouldnÆt reach ████ ████ the microphones. Kember arranged garden lamps ████ ████ from a nearby party store for mood lighting in ████ ████ the high-ceiling space. It was the longest time ████ ████ Iceage have ever spent making an album. When ████ ████ the rain had stopped, Seek Shelter revealed ████ ████ itself as a collection of songs radiating ████ ████ warmth and a profound desire for salvation in a ████ ████ world thatÆs spinning further and further out ████ ████ of control. ████ ████ ████ ████ Iceage started making music together in 2008 as ████ ████ young teens in their hometown of Copenhagen. ████ ████ The bandÆs 2011 debut New Brigade, crystallised ████ ████ the raucous energy and unbreakable brotherhood ████ ████ of Danish teenagers weaned on post-punk, ████ ████ hardcore and no wave, and it found ears and kin ████ ████ around the world. 2012Æs YouÆre Nothing was ████ ████ hard, fast and raw, a bold doubling-down on the ████ ████ aggression of youth in the first record as well ████ ████ as the weight of expectation. Plowing Into the ████ ████ Field of Love (2014) and Beyondless (2018) saw ████ ████ a softening of the bandÆs hardest edges and the ████ ████ arrival of a certain world-weary vaudeville in ████ ████ the Iceage sound. In an extraordinary and ████ ████ unexpected run, the band had gone from the ████ ████ fertile hyperlocal Copenhagen scene to stages ████ ████ all over the world. IceageÆs past two records ù ████ ████ all filtered twangy guitar riffs, sparse piano ████ ████ arrangements, and slinky, slow-moving rhythms ù ████ ████ ventured into an intoxicated but knowing swirl, ████ ████ surveying the party at the end of the night. ████ ████ TheyÆd seen it all, at least once, and their ████ ████ music rode the crest of that chaos. ████ ████ ████ ████ Seek Shelter, the bandÆs first record made with ████ ████ an outside producer brought in alongside ████ ████ longtime collaborator Nis Bysted, is the place ████ ████ they have been called to next. Elias Bender ████ ████ Roennenfelt casts the influence of producer ████ ████ Sonic Boom as that of a sparring partner, ████ ████ another wayward mind to bounce ideas off of and ████ ████ another pair of hands (along with Shawn ████ ████ Everett, who mixed the record) to help shape ████ ████ the sound. Kember had said in an interview that ████ ████ heÆd like to produce for the band, and the ████ ████ feeling was mutual. Roennenfelt recalls being 12 ████ ████ or 13, listening to Spacemen 3, the band Kember ████ ████ co-founded in 1982 at the age of 16. ôIt was ████ ████ one of those things that just reverberated with ████ ████ my being,ö he explains. For Seek Shelter, ôwe ████ ████ wanted a partner that had some noise that we ████ ████ didnÆt have, more a wizard than a producer. We ████ ████ thought heÆd be that kind of wizard for us, and ████ ████ we were right ù he came in with a truckload of ████ ████ strange equipment that weÆd never seen before.ö ████ ████ Kember, reflecting on the session and reaching ████ ████ for his highest praise, describes Iceage as ████ ████ ôfucking show offs, like everyone who was ever ████ ████ great and emotional and honest.ö ████ ████ ████ ████ For Seek ShelterÆs story of scorched-earth ████ ████ salvation, the bandÆs songwriting embraces ████ ████ conventional structures more conspicuously than ████ ████ it has in the past. The dirge-like drone that ████ ████ opens the record gives way to a wall of reverb ████ ████ that sounds fuller and brighter than anything ████ ████ they've committed to tape, signalling a clarity ████ ████ of clouds breaking. American gospel and blues ████ ████ signatures break to the front of the slow- ████ ████ grooving ôVendettaö and harmonica-flecked ôGold ████ ████ City,ö a record which sounds like the road, a ████ ████ desert mission under a blazing sun. The Lisboa ████ ████ Gospel Collective, who joined the band for two ████ ████ tracks on the final day in the studio, provide ████ ████ a new scale to RoennenfeltÆs incantations. There ████ ████ are moments of unvarnished romanticism, as on ████ ████ the brisk Jacques Brel-like ôDrink Rain,ö and ████ ████ an overcast tenderness that gently glides over ████ ████ ôLove Kills Slowly.ö The massive ôHigh & Hurtö ████ ████ interpolates ôWill the Circle Be Unbroken,ö a ████ ████ warhorse of the American religious vernacular ████ ████ that has become an increasingly urgent plea ████ ████ over the past century. ItÆs not the only anthem ████ ████ that calls out to the heavens: later on, ████ ████ Roennenfelt invokes the patron saint of music ████ ████ and poetry on ôDear Saint Cecilia,ö a song for ████ ████ seekers everywhere. ôWriting a song is like ████ ████ trying to find a space where you can make ████ ████ something thatÆs been riled up and down through ████ ████ the years feel like it belongs to your present ████ ████ moment,ö says Roennenfelt. ôItÆs all just ████ ████ scaffolding that you can project something ████ ████ onto.ö ████ ████ ████ ████ RoennenfeltÆs lyricism reaches grand heights ████ ████ despite its classic opacity ù he sings of ████ ████ taking shelter, of tranquil affections that ████ ████ threaten to combust, and of a limp-wristed god ████ ████ with a cavalcade of devotees in search of ████ ████ relief. His expressionist imagery consistently ████ ████ hinges on the divine, a natural result of his ████ ████ desire to take a kernel of ordinary emotion ████ ████ and, as he explains, ôblow it up like a ████ ████ balloon.ö For Seek Shelter, as with all ████ ████ IceageÆs previous albums, Roennenfelt stowed ████ ████ away for a set period of weeks and wrote the ████ ████ lyrics in one shot. ôI set a time just to make ████ ████ sure that all the lyrics are written from the ████ ████ same mindset,ö he explains of these weeks ████ ████ alone. The lyrics stem from journals that heÆs ████ ████ kept over the past few years: ôit becomes an ████ ████ amalgamation of ideas and impressions of things ████ ████ that youÆve been provoked by or had to live ████ ████ through. You end up with something that is a ████ ████ rough, blurry perspective of what that period ████ ████ of time was like, a mishmash of personal ████ ████ struggle that is shaded throughout by a world ████ ████ that seems more transparent in its inherently ████ ████ cruel ways.ö Romance and desire, as described ████ ████ in ôLove Kills Slowlyö and the album closer ████ ████ ôThe Holding Hand,ö are feelings that stretch ████ ████ torturously ù a race without a finish line. ████ ████ ████ ████ What precisely makes an Iceage song is still a ████ ████ mysterious thing, and the band wishes to ████ ████ maintain this protean quality. ôIf thereÆs ever ████ ████ a point in our history when something in the ████ ████ songs starts to seem easy but doesnÆt really ████ ████ excite us that much, we just discard that shit ████ ████ right away,ö he says. ôYouÆve always got to ████ ████ find a new vantage point to attack the ████ ████ assignment of writing a song. If we had a ████ ████ formula, it would be just a continuous watering ████ ████ down of what we do until we hated ourselves and ████ ████ quit.ö With Seek Shelter, theyÆve managed to ████ ████ hold onto this core of presence and risk while ████ ████ writing their most ambitious songs. Even ████ ████ Roennenfelt was surprised with what they were ████ ████ able to create together. ôI think when we ████ ████ started we were just lashing out completely ████ ████ blindfolded with no idea as to why we were ████ ████ doing anything.ö HeÆs speaking of the new ████ ████ record and also of their entire existence as a ████ ████ band, a travelogue that has catapulted these ████ ████ four friends far past the horizons of punk. ████ ████ ôSome of that we wanted to remain intact. We ████ ████ try to keep the mystery. If there's no sense of ████ ████ mystery in it for us, then it's not fun.ö Seek ████ ████ Shelter is a record that now exists at a moment ████ ████ of a collective unknown, when every beating ████ ████ heart wonders what will happens next. ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ▄▀▀███▓▄ ▄▓███▀▀▄ ████ ████ ■ ███▓█ .···. G R O U P .···. █▓███ ■ ████ ████ · ▄▓███▓ ▓███▓▄ · ████ █████ ▄▄▓█▀▀▀│ ▓ MAiL: [email protected] ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ █▀ ▀██▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██▀ ▀█ ██▄██▀ ▀██▄██ ████▀ The only thing that really matters is music!!! ▀████ ▀██▓ ▓██▀ ▀██▓▄ ▄▓██▀ .▀ │ ▀▀██▄▓▄ .···. G R E E T S .···. ▄▓▄██▀▀ │ ▀ . ▄▓▓▄ │ ▀▀▀█▄▄ ▄▄█▀▀▀ │ ▄▓▓▄ . ▀▀ ▀▀▄ FRiENDS / SiTEOPS / NUKENET ▄▀▀ ▀▀ ▀ . ▄ ▄▓▓▄ ▀▄ RIP kHz ▄▀ ▄▓▓▄ ▄ . ▀ ▀ ▀▓▀ ▀▀ ▀ . ▄.···. !kb^faa 08.MARCH 2009 .···.▄ . ▀ ▀▀ ▀▓▀ ▀ .