There’s always been a spiritual tinge to the white-hot post-punk violence of Iceage. Not so much ‘woowoo’, more like ‘fervent small town preacher struggling with his faith’. The album title “For Love of Grace & the Hereafter” sounds hopeful, but the single “The Weak” is in full grapple-mode, teetering on the brink between cynical abandonment and standing your ground underneath the great heavens above.




