Iceage have returned with The Holding Hand, the first single via their new label home Mexican Summer.
Following their 2020 single Lockdown Blues, the over-five-minute track builds through ominous, pounding percussion and guitars while retaining the slow-burning, spaced-out cinematic sound the Copenhagen post-punks leaned towards on their last LP, 'Beyondless', released in 2018. Frontman Elias Bender Rønnenfelt said:
"The song lives in a slurred world, movements are elastically stretched out and strength is found in weakness while you find it hard to tell the difference between fume and matter. Gently the swaying intensifies, feel it escalate. Reach out for the holding hand, it seems almost within scope now."
The song comes paired with a video directed by Anders Malmberg, who added: "The band has such an amazing and soulful presence, and my aim was to create a cinematic experience around image reflections that would tie in closely to the narrative and the emotional atmosphere of the track, and let the authenticity that the band radiates feel ever present."
A decade since they released debut album, 'New Brigade', the now five-piece are yet to reveal details about their fifth full-length.
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