Iceage return with their new single “Star,” via Mexican Summer, and an accompanying video directed by Thinh T. Petrus Nguyen. “Star” marks the first new music from the Danish quintet — vocalist Elias Rønnenfelt, guitarist Johan Suurballe Wieth, drummer Dan Kjær Nielsen, guitarist Casper Morilla Fernandez, and bassist Jakob Tvilling Pless — since their 2021 album Seek Shelter. The song follows Rønnenfelt’s solo albums Heavy Glory (2024), Speak Daggers (2025), and lucre (2025), as well as his release with Dean Blunt.

“Star” is a total love song; its subject awakens its singer and everything around them. It whips the scaffold sheeting; it breathes life. Rønnenfelt still writes from a place of grit, but here, it is animated. As is the music, featuring a sixteenth-note jangle pulse with room for twinkling and slashy guitars, for soaring, and for tension. Handclaps arriveout of nowhere, offering an esnthusiastic answer.