Iceage Release New Single, “Gold City,” and Announce 2022 North American/UK Tour
April 22, 2021 For Immediate Release Iceage Release New Single, “Gold City,” and Announce 2022 North American/UK Tour New Album, Seek Shelter, Out May 7th on Mexican Summer Seek Shelter Concert Streaming May 22nd (photo credit: Jonas Bang) “Seek Shelter is [Iceage’s] most inviting album to date: It’s easy to imagine a new song like ‘Gold City,’ with its chattering tambourine and Springsteen-style magnitude, sung to an arena full of revelers.” - Pitchfork Today, Copenhagen-based band Iceage release a new single, “Gold City,” from their forthcoming album, Seek Shelter, out May 7th on Mexican Summer, and announce a 2022 North American and UK tour. Additionally, Iceage has announced a Seek Shelter concert streaming Saturday, May 22nd at 8pm Eastern and 8pm Pacific. The concert will feature a performance of Seek Shelter in its entirety. Previewed on the band’s last North American tour, “Gold City” is a passage in Seek Shelter’s story of scorched-earth salvation. The American gospel and blues signatures present in previous single “Vendetta” reappear here as Elias Bender Rønnenfelt rousingly sings of a vast journey: “First there was I, then there was us // Off goes the layers, as written in dust // What you have lost, I shall provide // All that you le behind, I'll pick up the supplies // Latch on // Hold still, before I forget // Remain in this passing juncture // Let it swarm, let it sit.” Rønnenfelt comments: “At home and enraptured in the fleeting moment, the sky becomes technicolor in its makeshi lucidity. A culmination made so that everything felt briefly complete.
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