Elias Rønnenfelt is a rare bird in the rock and roll landscape. Thoughtful without retreating into self-effacement, affably pretentious but not so arrogant that he stints on the sharing of credit or pretends to know what he doesn’t; Rønnenfelt harkens back to the kind of frontman who’d be on the covers of NME and Melody Maker in the ‘80s. The singer of Iceage has — after five studio albums with the band he formed as a teenager in 2008 — released a solo album, Heavy Glory. Rest assured that Iceage has not broken up. In fact, “Iceage have been really in fruition since I finished this record,” elias.ronnenfelt will say, when that inevitable question comes up. “I think by having a vessel to outlive my stripped-back balladry it made it so much more apparent that I have possibly the best rock and roll band in the world right over here.” It’s reductionist to say that the tradition of “front person making a solo album” typically falls into one of three camps. The “fuck you, I can make it on ...