Forming in 2008 when its five members were on the cusp of adulthood, Danish rock outfit Iceage have shapeshifted from irate punk on their 2011 debut, New Brigade (which appeared on multiple best-of-the-year lists), to anthemic Britpop on 2021’s Seek Shelter. This evolution in their creative direction saw the band introduce new complex arrangements featuring horns, acoustic guitars and keyboards, and explore a more expressive approach to songwriting. Live, the band offer raw energy and a dynamic show led by frontman Elias Bender Rønnenfelt’s powerful persona.

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“Shake The Feeling” is open to interpretation. The phrase can refer to the Rock ‘n’ Roll clarion call of “shaking of some action.” Or it can be taken as a callback to the even more primal urge to “shake what your mama gave you.” Ultimately, the phrase can be seen as an expression of existentialism; an acknowledgement of our consigned inability to be free of the human condition. It’s the latter interpretation, the usage that–while ostensibly romantic–implies something inescapable, that Iceage are using for the title of their new record. As with everything Iceage does, it’s a come-on delivered as a threat, a sexy invitation to get irretrievably lost.

While not as anachronistic as a B-sides album, an outtakes compilation is something older, classic rock bands, like Deep Purple or Pavement, have. Nobody saw this for Iceage. Hell, nobody saw Iceage surviving their first US tour, let alone living long enough as a band to have songs they actually left off of records. But Iceage haven’t just survived - they managed to get better, so much so that even their wretched castoffs shine in god’s light like golden teeth from a pirate’s sun bleached skull. Even as teens, the spirit was indeed in them, and it was a spirit of both epistemological violence and euphoric grace. When lead singer Elias Bender Rønnenfelt looked dead-eyed and stalwart out across those crowds and sang the chorus of “Total Drench,” he was speaking both truth and prophecy.

As with all of Iceage’s albums, whether it be the sensual daring-do of their dark-hardcore masterpiece debut, the Flying Nun-dappled “Oi!!!!” of You’re Nothing, the shift to cowpunk gothic romanticism on Plowing Into the Field of Love, or the space truckin’ gospel-rock of their most recent albums, Elias Bender Rønnenfelt, Johan Suurballe Wieth, Jakob Tvilling Pless and Dan Kjær Nielsen make the impossible seem effortless. Shake The Feeling: Outtakes & Rarities 2015-2021, the band’s second full length for Mexican Summer, is a collection of non-LP cuts (or “misfit children,” as Elias describes them) from the seven years during which Iceage made Plowing Into the Field of Love (2014), Beyondless (2018), and Seek Shelter (2021).

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