Iceage - Against the Moon

"A fugitive has a tendency to return home."

Album: Plowing into the Fields of Love [3rd album]
Recorded:
Genre: Punk, Post Punk, Art Punk
Album Release: October 7th 2014
Single Release:
Length: 3:27
Producer: Iceage & Nis Bysted
Vocalist: Elias Bender Rønnenfelt
Label: Matador Records

Music Video


Live at Boiler Room

Charts, Streams & Sales

Spotify: Over 2.5 million
YouTube Music: Over 300 thousand 

Credits

Bass, drums, piano, viola, violin

Details 

• 'Against the Moon' is about making the same mistakes and wasted time. The singer describes his failed attempt to win back a former lover in a sombre, depressing tone that could be straight from a gothic novel. He knows his actions are bad for him but repeats them anyway. He's doomed to live in the shadow of a faded love, forlorn, dejected, hopeful for a moment, only to be forlon again.
  
  We don't have any details of the relationship. We don't know if the singer deserves his fate. We only know that he languishes in an obsession he doesn't want to escape from. Is it some form of penance? Is he a spectre haunting a former flame? The questions give the song a true sense of mystery because the answers are never revealed. What we are left with is only a feeling, a longing, raw emotion encapsulated in sound.
  
  

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