Iceage

Add Date: August 23 

Artist: Iceage 

Album: New Brigade 

Label: What's Your Rupture? 

Genre: Rock, punk, experimental 

Comments: From the onesheet: "New Brigade is Iceage's debut album, 26 minutes of anthemic stress, of tension undiluted by worldly wisdom or amassed experience... Iceage mixes '77 punk, '79 post-punk, Goth and hardcore as if they invented [those genres], and does such an excellent job of blending these tropes with the pent-up energy and frustration of the just-post-pubescent years of young men's lives, that they might as well have."

As hinted at in the promo, these four Danes are teenagers--all between 16 and 18 years old. That makes New Brigade scary good; there's nothing unpolished about this post-punk, post-hardcore sprawl that will appeal to fans of Black Flag, No Age and F***ed Up. Spin tracks 2, 3, 12 and 7.