Iceage’s Elias Rønnenfelt announces debut solo album, Heavy Glory

Heavy Glory first took form within the spring of 2022, through the curious coda of the pandemic, when the world felt neither open nor closed. Rønnenfelt, “sick and uninterested in not having the ability to do what I do,” introduced to his followers and associates that he would play reveals wherever in Europe, in any venue, to whoever needed to listen to his music. On the street, Rønnenfelt would write songs and play them the subsequent day. These songs, which type the guts of Heavy Glory, had been designed to be performed wherever, and so they needed to be: they had been christened in forests and dwelling rooms, bookstores and chapels.

Co-produced by Rønnenfelt and Nis Bysted, Heavy Glory was recorded in Copenhagen in chapters and moments over the course of a yr. Collaborators embody Iceage’s Dan Kjær Nielsen, Danish punk godfather Peter Peter, and singers Joanne Robertson (Elias and Joanne have collaborated earlier than, on a lot of latest Dean Blunt releases) and Fauzia. “I’ve achieved this so many occasions,” Rønnenfelt explains, talking of the method of crafting an extended participant, “however capturing and crystallising an album stays a singular ritual, simply with completely different circumstances. We’re capturing one thing that’s onerous to carry down.”

Tracklist:

1. Like Lovers Do
2. One other Spherical
3. Doomsday Childsplay
4. Shut (that includes Fauzia)
5. No One Else
6. Stalker
7. Worm Grew a Backbone
8. Soldier Music (that includes Joanne Robertson)
9. Unarmed
10. River of Madeleine
11. Sound Of Confusion (Spaceman 3 cowl)
12. No Place to Fall (Townes Van Zandt cowl)