Shake the Feeling: Outtakes & Rarities 2015-2021

by Iceage

Overview

The snarling and abrasive Iceage that blasted punk out of the gates on their 2011 debut New Brigade was an entirely different band than the one that showed up with the swaying moodiness and nocturnal horn arrangements on Plowing Into the Field of Love just three years later. The band's evolution was fast and unusual, with huge leaps in style and sound from album to album pointing to creative restlessness and a strong drive to keep things from getting stale. Shake the Feeling tracks phases of Iceage's evolution in the form of outtakes recorded during sessions for 2014's Plowing Into the Field of Love, 2018's Beyondless, and 2021's Seek Shelter, but were left off of their respective albums for whatever reason. Though made up of seemingly unrelated segments, Shake the Feeling seems at times like its own chapter in Iceage's story. Rather than a chronological track order, the songs are arranged to flow like an album, and a haphazard one at that. Blasting and sloppy rockers like "Sociopath Boogie" bleed into two covers (a yelping rendition of Abner Jay's "My Mule" and an especially shambling and drunken take on the Bob Dylan-penned, Nico-perfected tune "I'll Keep It with Mine") before stumbling back into midtempo originals. "Broken Hours" is spare and angular, crackling with a Birthday Party-informed tension, and the overblown recording and farm-punk rhythm of "I'm Ready to Make a Baby" adds to the over the top atmosphere cultivated by the song's ridiculous lyrics. The depraved space gospel of "Lockdown Blues" includes lyrics that directly reference COVID-19 and quarantine, placing it a little bit firmly in time to really fit on an album, where the gentle flutes and mellow delivery of an acoustic version of Seek Shelter opener "Shelter Song" offer a lovely alternate perspective of the album version. Shake the Feeling serves more as an annex for outcast ideas: Songs not quite too far gone to be discarded outright, but still just a little bit too removed from the greater statements of the albums they were considered for. It's a fascinating, disjointed listen, and one that illuminates a little bit of the process behind Iceage's rapidly changing output. ~ Fred Thomas

Product Details

Release Date:	10/07/2022
Label:	MEXICAN SUMMER
UPC:	0184923133127

Tracks

1. All the Junk on the Outskirts
2. Shake the Feeling
3. Sociopath Boogie
4. I'll Keep It With Mine
5. Balm of Gilead
6. I'm Ready to Make a Baby
7. My Mule
8. Order Meets Demand
9. Broken Hours
10. Lockdown Blues
11. Namouche
12. Shelter Song [Acoustic]

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Iceage   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Bob Dylan   Composer
Abner Jay   Composer
Mattias Glava   Engineer
Lars Lundholm   Engineer
Joaquim Monte   Engineer
Iceage   Arranger,Composer,Producer
Bernardo Centeno   Engineer
Sonic Boom   Producer
Emil Thomsen   Mixing,Mastering
Nis Bysted   Mixing,Engineer,Producer
Mads Brinch   Engineer
Tom Larsson   Assistant Engineer
Dan Kjaer Nielsen   Group Member
Johan Suurballe Wieth   Group Member
Elias Bender Ronnenfelt   Composer,Lyricist,Group Member
Jakob Tvilling Pless   Group Member
Kim Thue   Photography
Mattie Jay   Composer