# @thefader on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DDH611MRnAz
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/25269973-thefader-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-12-03T16:57:43.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The FADER (@thefader) — https://gondola.cc/thefader

## Caption

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 my own” crossover attempt, the “don’t worry, guys. I just got this mini-Korg, but I’ll be back soon” trifle, or the “guys, I just got divorced. And an acoustic guitar. Don’t wait up” soul exorcism. If that’s true (and it is), Heavy Glory is mainly the latter, with just enough of the non-alienating experimentalism of the middle option (along with a light touch of Dylan & the Band hootenanny collaboration) to stave off a band intervention. Across the album’s twelve tracks (ten originals and one cover each of Spacemen 3 and Townes Van Zandt songs), Rønnenfelt goes from spartan folk ‘n’ janky drum machine to being fully drenched in strings. Nearly all of it is in the service of describing how love breaks down.

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📸 Ira Rønnenfelt

#EliasRonnenfelt #HeavyGlory

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