{"id":645895,"date":"2024-12-03T19:16:36","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T16:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/solving-rock-music-with-elias-ronnenfelt\/"},"modified":"2024-12-03T19:16:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T16:16:36","slug":"solving-rock-music-with-elias-ronnenfelt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/solving-rock-music-with-elias-ronnenfelt\/","title":{"rendered":"#Solving rock music with Elias R\u00f8nnenfelt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content_blocks\">\n<style>\n #content_block-265844 {\n   background: #1e1779;\n   padding-bottom: 40px;\n }<\/p>\n<\/style>\n<style>\n<p> #content_block-265844 {\n   background: #1e1779;\n   margin-bottom: 60px;\n }<\/p>\n<p> article.custom .custom-title, article.custom .custom-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> .caption {\n   color: #f0dbe5;\n }<\/p>\n<p> article.custom .custom-attribution, article.custom .custom-attribution a {\n   color: #f0dbe5;\n }<\/p>\n<p> article.custom .content_block blockquote.pull_quote {\n   color: #f0dbe5;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265844\" class=\"content_block flush title center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"custom-title\">\n      Solving rock music with Elias R\u00f8nnenfelt\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-description\">\n      An afternoon chat with the Iceage frontman covers his debut solo album <i>Heavy Glory<\/i>, God, and the place for a certain kind of icon in 2024.\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-attribution\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Zachary Lipez<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-media\">\n<div class=\"triple_gutter_left triple_gutter_right image center_align\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" 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1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/elias-by-Ira-Ronnenfelt_v9zbh6\/elias-ronnenfelt-heavy-glory-profile.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Solving rock music with Elias R\u00f8nnenfelt\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>      Photo by Ira R\u00f8nnenfelt<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"custom_share_buttons_top \" style=\"\">\n<div id=\"new_socials_bottom\" class=\"new_socials_footer  \">\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefader.com\/assets\/FDR_SocialSharing_Facebook-747312c39722d47504a80f02500b8d4ad2e36acf922bad1c83799db1bc77f605.png\"><br \/>\n      <!-- <span>Share<\/span> --><\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target='\"new\"' 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<!-- <span>Snap<\/span> --><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<style>\n<p> #content_block-265836,  #content_block-265836 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-265836 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #f0dbe5;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265836\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <span style=\"color:#f0dbe5\" class=\"lead-text\">Elias R\u00f8nnenfelt is the kind of rock star<\/span> we don\u2019t see much of nowadays, and not just because the \u201cstar\u201d part of the equation depends on the metric we\u2019re using. There is, after all, some air between being celestially famous, being almost famous, and being mostly famous amongst certain cultural subsets. In R\u00f8nnenfelt\u2019s case, his fanbase is largely made up of Danes, Germans (Berlin), Australians (Melbourne), Paul Weller skinheads, Americans who can name either two members of the Bad Seeds or one Total Control song, Vietnam fans who never bought a Preoccupations album, cis hairdressers, genderfluid tattooists, closeted Swans fans, boho astrologists, male-identifying Dum Dum Girls groupies, amphetamine goths, ghosts, vampires, exes, enablers, and pretty much all the other good and decent people in the world who wake up every morning asking themselves how they\u2019re going to best reenact the video for \u201cFree Falling.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265868\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n #content_block-265837 {\n   background: ;\n   padding-bottom: 40px;\n }<\/p>\n<p> #content_block-265837,  #content_block-265837 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-265837 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #f0dbe5;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265837\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            Still, setting aside that male rock stardom itself is currently pretty much the purview of Dave Grohl and the guy from the 1975 exclusively, R\u00f8nnenfelt \u2014 with his model good looks and hair that seems to moisten itself before your eyes \u2014 is a rare bird in the rock and roll landscape. Thoughtful without retreating into self-effacement, affably pretentious but not so arrogant that he stints on the sharing of credit or pretends to know what he doesn\u2019t; R\u00f8nnenfelt harkens back to the kind of frontman who\u2019d be on the covers of <i>NME<\/i> and <i>Melody Maker<\/i> in the \u201880s, back when they were broadsheets with a different, completely brilliant and ludicrously coiffed Ian every week. Even considering the current rocker intelligentsia is a couple of rungs lower than Grohl and 1975 dude, the fact that R\u00f8nnenfelt knows how to dress himself makes him a near anachronism. And sure, Nick Cave and the National still \u201crock suits\u201d but the National never got the memo that a button-down and jacket should make you look like a rakish scumbag, not a scotch distillery rep. As for Nick Cave, I have it on good authority that he hasn\u2019t actually worn a stitch of clothes in twenty-five years; that\u2019s just what his skin looks like. \n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265860\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Elias R\u00f8nnenfelt - No One Else\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qKtm5py38EM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('265860');\n<\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<p> #content_block-265838,  #content_block-265838 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-265838 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #f0dbe5;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265838\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            So there\u2019s just Elias R\u00f8nnenfelt, chain-smoking in the Los Angeles sun with a glimmer in his eyes as bright as the pristine whiteness of his collar and the grease reflection of his hair (which seemed to self-separate around said shining eyes like something out of a Hugo Boss ad), chugging a can of domestic beer, and saying stuff like \u201cthere are worse things than angels.\u201d Even in an hour-long interview touching on questions of disillusionment, endings, and the limitations of faith, the man exudes a timelessness through his swank that&#8217;s almost enough to make one believe in stuff.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            As was traditional back when everything ran on pneumatic energy and the whims of the English press, the singer of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theafder.com\/artist\/iceage\">Iceage<\/a> has \u2014 after five studio albums with the band he formed as a teenager in 2008 \u2014 released a solo album. Before there\u2019s any mass hurling of oneselves out of high windows amongst the post-punk 28-38 bracket, let me assure you all that Iceage has not broken up. In fact, \u201cIceage have been really in fruition since I finished this record,\u201d R\u00f8nnenfelt will say, when that inevitable question comes up. \u201cI think by having a vessel to outlive my s<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>ped-back balladry it made it so much more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>arent that I have possibly the best rock and roll band in the world right over here.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265863\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left pull_quote\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"pull_quote\"><p>\u201cI\u2019m just fumbling towards writing songs that feel like they have a reason to exist in the world. I don\u2019t have any calculated end goal for what I\u2019m going for.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<p> #content_block-265839,  #content_block-265839 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-265839 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #f0dbe5;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265839\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            It\u2019s reductionist to say that the tradition of \u201cfront person making a solo album\u201d typically falls into one of three camps. The \u201cfuck you, I can make it on my own\u201d crossover attempt, the \u201cdon\u2019t worry, guys. I just got this mini-Korg, but I\u2019ll be back soon\u201d trifle, or the \u201cguys, I just got divorced. And an acoustic guitar. Don\u2019t wait up\u201d soul exorcism. If that\u2019s true (and it is), <i>Heavy Glory<\/i> is mainly the latter, with just enough of the non-alienating experimentalism of the middle option (along with a light touch of Dylan &amp; the Band hootenanny collaboration) to stave off a band intervention. Across the album\u2019s twelve tracks (ten originals and one cover each of Spacemen 3 and Townes Van Zandt songs), R\u00f8nnenfelt goes from spartan folk \u2018n\u2019 janky drum machine to being fully drenched in strings. Nearly all of it is in the service of describing how love breaks down.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            At one point of our conversation, I complimented the singer for how his litany cataloging of personal failings was comprehensive but avoided the singer-songwriter trope of serial infidelity. I was genuinely proud for him.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            At the praise, R\u00f8nnenfelt gives a faintly pained half smile, before saying \u201cgive that song \u2018No One Else\u2019 another listen.\u201d \n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265849\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Elias-Ronnelfelt-1-by-Ilaria-Ieie-styling-Francesco-Mautone_un8zzk\/photo-by-ilaria-ieie.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Elias-Ronnelfelt-1-by-Ilaria-Ieie-styling-Francesco-Mautone_un8zzk\/photo-by-ilaria-ieie.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Elias-Ronnelfelt-1-by-Ilaria-Ieie-styling-Francesco-Mautone_un8zzk\/photo-by-ilaria-ieie.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Elias-Ronnelfelt-1-by-Ilaria-Ieie-styling-Francesco-Mautone_un8zzk\/photo-by-ilaria-ieie.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Elias-Ronnelfelt-1-by-Ilaria-Ieie-styling-Francesco-Mautone_un8zzk\/photo-by-ilaria-ieie.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Elias-Ronnelfelt-1-by-Ilaria-Ieie-styling-Francesco-Mautone_un8zzk\/photo-by-ilaria-ieie.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Elias-Ronnelfelt-1-by-Ilaria-Ieie-styling-Francesco-Mautone_un8zzk\/photo-by-ilaria-ieie.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Elias-Ronnelfelt-1-by-Ilaria-Ieie-styling-Francesco-Mautone_un8zzk\/photo-by-ilaria-ieie.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Elias-Ronnelfelt-1-by-Ilaria-Ieie-styling-Francesco-Mautone_un8zzk\/photo-by-ilaria-ieie.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Elias-Ronnelfelt-1-by-Ilaria-Ieie-styling-Francesco-Mautone_un8zzk\/photo-by-ilaria-ieie.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Elias-Ronnelfelt-1-by-Ilaria-Ieie-styling-Francesco-Mautone_un8zzk\/photo-by-ilaria-ieie.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Solving rock music with Elias R\u00f8nnenfelt\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      Photo by Ilaria Ieie.<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265869\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<p> #content_block-265840,  #content_block-265840 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-265840 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #f0dbe5;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265840\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            When I respond, \u201coh ok gotcha,\u201d the singer gives me the universal look of \u201cnext question.\u201d As he will do later in the interview, when I do my sniveling journalist duty and ask him point blank if he\u2019s still seeing Sky Ferreira, the alt-pop demi-star who duetted with the Iceage singer on <i>Beyondless<\/i>\u2019 excellent tentpole single, \u201cPain Killer,\u201d and with whom, for a number of years, R\u00f8nnenfelt could be found woozily cavorting with the darkest corner of one coastal after party or another. The two were, in their fashion, in certain circles with certain shared proclivities, iconic. While I prefer to keep my prying and petty speculation far behind the subject of gossip\u2019s back like a normal person, the gig is the gig so I had to ask if the couple were still together. R\u00f8nnenfelt gave a second-long pause, which felt appropriately eternal, before giving a firmly polite \u201cno.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Not sure how I missed an entire track of lines like \u201cTrust is a gift retracted if the beneficiary don\u2019t take custody\u2026 When I said I wanted nothing, that\u2019s not really what I meant \/ Her kisses truly sweet like no one else \/ but I couldn\u2019t keep my fingers to myself \/ I couldn\u2019t keep my fingers to myself\u201d the first time around. Though I\u2019m not sure that there\u2019s a fault to be found in not taking any one song explicitly.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cA lot of the record is very earnestly informed and taken from real life, and the highs and lows and troubles and goodness that comes within that. And it&#8217;s written from various stations and stages of relationships,\u201d R\u00f8nnenfelt says. \u201cSo in that sense, yes, some of it is very true to life. But the goal hasn&#8217;t been to just write down what happens, you know, in a one-to-one form, laying it out there as clear as possible. In the end, it&#8217;s also about making a worthwhile piece of art rather than just a diary entry.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265861\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Elias R\u00f8nnenfelt - Doomsday Childsplay\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3oKU0rJ72nI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('265861');\n<\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<p> #content_block-265841,  #content_block-265841 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-265841 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #f0dbe5;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265841\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            Perhaps, also, it was the proximity that \u201cNo One Else\u201d has to \u201cStalker,\u201d one of the two tracks on the album where the album\u2019s cast of characters extend past the character of Elias himself. \u201cStalker\u201d does so as a Pulp-esque narrative, which the singer describes as \u201ca complete fiction, based on a failed novel,\u201d whereas, later on the record, R\u00f8nnenfelt uses \u201cSoldier Song\u201d as a not-so-banal-banality-of-evil mediation on whatever rhetorical pretzels any war apologist might be twisting themselves into in order to sleep at night on any given day. If these two tracks are character studies, they hardly constitute a defense for missing the plaintive nature of the album\u2019s sole explicit admission of any sin greater than a habit of indulging habits. Amidst even the two cover songs and the non-fiction pulp fiction of \u201cWorm Grew A Spine,\u201d \u201cStalker\u201d and \u201cSoldier Song\u201d are the only times on the album where R\u00f8nnenfelt\u2019s heart cedes the spotlight.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            R\u00f8nnenfelt has the kind of voice I like; that of a non-singer who doesn\u2019t let that stupid detail stop them. Not flat or off per se, but still carried more by insistence than nature. While punk formalized that kind of hubris being allowed, it too is a tradition going back at least as far as Dylan. Even if it was then a bit dormant in popular culture until Richard Hell and Bon Scott got their foots in the door, and then it exploded, there\u2019s still a charm to the sound of someone deciding to be what they want to be. While the question that led to it was about Spacemen 3 and Christ iconography (the album\u2019s cover is listed as \u201cSound of Confusion\u201d though its actual name is \u201cWalkin\u2019 With Jesus,\u201d though\u2014as the song is performed with Peter \u201cSonic Boom\u201d Kember, who was actually <i>in<\/i> Spacemen 3, and would therefore have a better idea of his own song\u2019s title than I would\u2014who the fuck knows), R\u00f8nnenfelt\u2019s answer about his religious upbringing indicates plenty.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265862\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Elias R\u00f8nnenfelt - Like Lovers Do\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7vsJ9a-g0bU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('265862');\n<\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<p> #content_block-265842,  #content_block-265842 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-265842 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #f0dbe5;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265842\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            After talking about how his father\u2019s side of the family was \u201chardcore Catholic,\u201d with his grandfather instilling a very real fear of damnation and Elias\u2019 father being \u201cthe black sheep\u201d who instilled in his son a bit of agnosticism, R\u00f8nnenfelt says, \u201cI remember being quite small and getting a habit before going to bed of talking to Jesus and to God about everything I did that day\u2014not directly to Jesus and God, but to the possibility of them existing\u2014of all the sins that I committed during that day just to say like, \u2018Hey, if you really exist, I know I stole this thing or I did this sinful act so, like, please have an understanding. Don&#8217;t put me in hell.\u2019 Just to be on the safe side, you know? And I think that created a habit of talking to myself because I wasn&#8217;t really talking to Jesus. I was having a dialogue. And later on, when my grandfather died, who was kind of the Catholic paternal figure of the family, I got involved with the priest and ceremony and was an altar boy for that, and that was the moment of being like \u2018Is there a sense of belonging in the church here? Is this something I could pursue?\u2019 And then punk happens. And I was like, \u2018Well, fuck all that.\u2019\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Besides the obvious thread between a child laying out all his sins to a potential Jesus and a young singer laying out all his sins for a potential audience (or potential idea of \u201cart\u201d), there\u2019s also how R\u00f8nnenfelt says \u201cthen punk happens.\u201d The use of the present tense to describe punk happening, as told by someone who was roughly seventeen in 2008, testifies to an almost feral innocence.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            That innocence comes up again as we discuss the album\u2019s influences, with R\u00f8nnenfelt saying, \u201cI&#8217;m just fumbling towards writing songs that feel like they have a reason to exist in the world. I don&#8217;t have any calculated end goal for what I&#8217;m going for. It&#8217;s influenced by a plethora of music traditions but I didn&#8217;t set the particular ones that would end up influencing it. I prefer to try to remain a bit naive as to which is coming from where. So it feels genuine and immediate to me.\u201d \n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265850\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/1-Elias-Ronnenfelt-by-Jonas-Bang_ps7icf\/elias-ronnenfelt-heavy-glory-profile.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/1-Elias-Ronnenfelt-by-Jonas-Bang_ps7icf\/elias-ronnenfelt-heavy-glory-profile.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/1-Elias-Ronnenfelt-by-Jonas-Bang_ps7icf\/elias-ronnenfelt-heavy-glory-profile.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/1-Elias-Ronnenfelt-by-Jonas-Bang_ps7icf\/elias-ronnenfelt-heavy-glory-profile.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/1-Elias-Ronnenfelt-by-Jonas-Bang_ps7icf\/elias-ronnenfelt-heavy-glory-profile.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/1-Elias-Ronnenfelt-by-Jonas-Bang_ps7icf\/elias-ronnenfelt-heavy-glory-profile.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/1-Elias-Ronnenfelt-by-Jonas-Bang_ps7icf\/elias-ronnenfelt-heavy-glory-profile.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/1-Elias-Ronnenfelt-by-Jonas-Bang_ps7icf\/elias-ronnenfelt-heavy-glory-profile.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/1-Elias-Ronnenfelt-by-Jonas-Bang_ps7icf\/elias-ronnenfelt-heavy-glory-profile.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/1-Elias-Ronnenfelt-by-Jonas-Bang_ps7icf\/elias-ronnenfelt-heavy-glory-profile.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/1-Elias-Ronnenfelt-by-Jonas-Bang_ps7icf\/elias-ronnenfelt-heavy-glory-profile.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Solving rock music with Elias R\u00f8nnenfelt\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>      Photo by Jonas Bang<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<p> #content_block-265843,  #content_block-265843 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-265843 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #f0dbe5;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265843\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            For all the skill in which he articulates his songwriting process as though he were either an arch modernest subverting the listener&#8217;s expectations with a complex turn of a phrase (at one point describing his lyric writing as having \u201ca certain sense of cruelty\u201d to it) or, alternately, his naivete was something he had to work at like some sort of modern primitive, one suspects that there is something far more pure at work here. He describes his lyrics, accurately, as \u201cvoluptuous,\u201d but the Rimbausian sophistication is belied by his telling of performing \u201cSound of Confusion\/Walkin\u2019 With Jesus\u201d with Kemper, at the release party for <i>Heavy Glory<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe sang \u2018Sound of Confusion\u2019 and I started tearing up as I was singing the lyrics,\u201d he says, \u201cjust because it felt like the words and soul of this song rang true to a part of myself; a feeling of being down and out that I had lived throughout a large portion of my life.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Marvelous as Spacemen 3 are, there\u2019s something additionally touching about this admission; something earnestly touching about Denmark\u2019s second most famous depressive punk poet being so moved by performing the \u201880s drone-rock \u201cToo Much Junkie Business,\u201d and his conveying that sentiment in the language of a Chicago bluesman. There is something classic in how R\u00f8nnenfelt affectations are so effortful as to become guileless. With the result being a knowing-not-knowing-and-back-again vulnerability that makes gold out of corn, and makes blues signifiers into actual blues. Because, for all the wryness communicated in both his verbosity and his smile, he may be pure (but for all the drugs and sleeping around). Clever as he is, and as clever as he elides, Elias R\u00f8nnenfelt exists almost outside of irony. He may be the last rock and roll frontman (who isn\u2019t, you know, an actual moron) to do so. \n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265864\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <iframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/2zh8YLgTukVMhUzLSRbNPd?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            <iframe allow=\"autoplay *; encrypted-media *; fullscreen *; clipboard-write\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"450\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:660px;overflow:hidden;border-radius:10px;\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.music.apple.com\/us\/album\/heavy-glory\/1763059650\"><\/iframe>\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Zachary Lipez<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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