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By Brittany Moura<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n Danish post-punk group Iceage took to the infamously tall Sinclair stage Wednesday night to an energetic crowd that clearly needed Elias Bender R\u00f8nnenfelt\u2019s sermon of desperate, raw power. The band, led by R\u00f8nnenfelt, includes Johan Surballe Wieth on guitar, Jakob Tvilling Pless on bass, and Dan Kj\u00e6r Nielson on drums. Since the release of their most accessible album, <\/span>Beyondless<\/span><\/i>, this past May, they\u2019ve added a violinist that takes their seemingly dangerous sound to a more nuanced, refined questioning of what \u201cpunk\u201d is supposed to sound like\u2013and that\u2019s not the only element that has illustrated Iceage\u2019s progression through sound and vision. As somebody who has spent her teenage years searching for a band that could balance the duality of light and dark in a way I could dance AND acquire bruises to, I\u2019m a happy customer.<\/span><\/p>\n They performed <\/span>Beyondless<\/span><\/i> in its entirety, except for \u201cShowtime,\u201d which is a great cut from the album that paints R\u00f8nnenfelt how the crowd sees him on stage\u2013a staggering punk pop star who looks as if he would fall down and die at any second\u2013and this is far from a bad thing. \u201cHurrah,\u201d the opening song, depicts literal war, which is ironic considering it is one of the most danceable tracks. The crowd, mainly the front row of devoted fans, watched in awe as R\u00f8nnenfelt made them his army, reaching down to make morbidly depressing eye contact and accidentally, perhaps, wrapping his mic cord around the most devoted. Following that was \u201cPain Killer,\u201d and \u201cUnder the Sun,\u201d which got more and more of the crowd singing along, and brought up the band\u2019s energy as a whole. <\/span><\/p>\n The band\u2019s previous album to <\/span>Beyondless<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Plowing Into the Field of Love<\/span><\/i>, majorly helped them acquire their passionate fanbase of all genders and ages, so when they started playing tunes like \u201cOn My Fingers,\u201d my personal favorite track of theirs, it was how I imagined seeing Joy Division play \u201cDisorder\u201d might have felt like\u2013not that they are too similar, but \u201cOn My Fingers\u201d oozes a similar sense of beautiful urgency that is both reminiscent and modern. Another star of the show, their most popular track, \u201cThe Lord\u2019s Favorite,\u201d features an iconic slap-dash guitar entrance that brought the performance to this eruption of high energy that caused one of the most stylish mosh pits I\u2019ve ever encountered. It was a blessing to be rammed into by young and old singing along with R\u00f8nnenfelt\u2019s moans of, \u201c<\/span>I do believe in heaven<\/span><\/i>,\u201d and lustful visions of his \u201c<\/span>dreamlike mirage haze<\/span><\/i>.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n After all, I think it\u2019s evident that Iceage was one of my favorite performances of 2018, and I recommend seeing them live to really appreciate the sense of urgency and passion surrounding this band.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Brittany Moura Danish post-punk group Iceage took to the infamously tall Sinclair stage Wednesday night to an energetic crowd that clearly needed Elias Bender R\u00f8nnenfelt\u2019s sermon of desperate, raw power. The band, led by R\u00f8nnenfelt, includes Johan Surballe Wieth on guitar, Jakob Tvilling Pless on bass, and Dan Kj\u00e6r Nielson on drums. Since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1525],"tags":[33,26,437,438,31,140,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2567"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2571,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567\/revisions\/2571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}