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████ 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 ████
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████ 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 ████
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████ TOTAL: 42:45 ████
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████ https://iceage.bandcamp.com/album/seek-shelter ████
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████ 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. ████
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████ 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. ████
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