ICEAGE - You're Nothing

Storming out of the gate with blown-out disco-beat barnburner "Ecstacy," You're Nothing is the sort of sophomore effort that will surely both gain Iceage plenty of new fans as well as easily appease those who've been waiting for a follow-up from these brooding Danes ever since promising 2011 debut New Brigade. 

"Yes, the angsty lyrics are occasionally comprehensible and the songs, which sometimes push past the three-minute mark, have slightly more breathing room, but the chilly, irritated scrape is just as potent. They may have found some success, but Iceage haven’t ditched the envelope-pushing teenage petulance that brought them there." - NOW Magazine

"Over its 12 tenaciously gritty tracks, You're Nothing reveals itself as an album that operates in contrasts. Amidst a sonic atmosphere of clenched-fist roughness, one can find stark beauty and honest emotional value in the lyrics of lead singer Elias Bender Rønnenfelt." - Exclaim!

"[Rønnenfelt's] presence is in part what makes Iceage so compelling. Fresh-faced, his thick voice always feels like a taunt. "Where are your morals?," he asks at one point, caught somewhere on the threshold between manhood and adolescence. It helps that he has an equally smart band behind him. The drum fills (the drumming here is something else, like an angry speed-driven typewriter) and tightly wired guitar lines alternate and duet, with a trebly discord ringing out across nearly all the tracks." - The Quietus