ELIAS RØNNENFELT

In the organizer's words:

Elias Rønnenfelt is a Danish musician and poet, known as the singer and lyricist of the band Iceage. His latest solo album "Speak Daggers" (2025) was created and recorded at home between tours, with contributions from The Congos, Erika de Casier and Fine. The record follows his debut 'Heavy Glory' (2024) and a string of collaborations, including Lucre with Dean Blunt and projects with Jonathan Leandoer96 and Fousheé.

"Heavy Glory" was the first solo album by Elias Rønnenfelt, who has been the lead singer of Iceage for the past 16 years - a band he co-founded at the age of 16.
Heavy Glory is the sound of growing up, throwing yourself headfirst into the world - created by someone whose only constant companions were a pen and a guitar.

The album tells stories of inspiration and perseverance in the face of chaos, isolation and excess. The villains within are poetic - crocodiles and rats without name or form - while banal details evoke a sharp, lived-in boredom: from the perfume of a urinal to the mere fact of Luton, London's loneliest airport.
The world described is a radiant mess - and Rønnenfelt is right in the middle of it. He knows how to exist in it.

Heavy Glory was recorded in Copenhagen - in chapters and moments - over the course of a year. Rønnenfelt plays the guitars, Dan Kjær Nielsen from Iceage the drums. Longtime companions, including members of Iceage and Danish '77 punk godfather Peter Peter, stop by, and two songs feature distinctive vocal backing vocals from Joanne Robertson and Fauzia.

"I've done this many times before," Rønnenfelt explains of the process of crafting an album, "but capturing and crystallizing an album remains a unique ritual - just in different circumstances. We capture something that is difficult to hold on to."