You're Nothing

You're Nothing
Studio album by Iceage
Released February 19, 2013
Recorded May 2012
Genre Punk rock, post-punk, noise rock, post-hardcore
Length 28:30
Label Matador Records
Producer Iceage & Nis Bysted
Iceage chronology

New Brigade
(2011)
You're Nothing
(2013)
Plowing Into the Field of Love
(2014)

You're Nothing is the second studio album by the Danish punk band Iceage. The album was released through Matador Records on February 19, 2013. Like its predecessor, New Brigade, the album was met with critical acclaim.

Reception

You're Nothing was well received by critics upon release. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 80, based on 40 reviews, indicating "generally favorable".[1] Pitchfork Media gave the album an 8.6 and the rating of Best New Music, saying that "Iceage write brilliant songs; on You're Nothing, they've found a way to clarify these compositional skills without stripping away their power"[2]

Fred Thomas, writing for Allmusic, also praised the album and the group's musical evolution, writing, "By the time the title track rolls around to close the album, Iceage have developed a record reaching out in many directions without straining to make any points"[3]

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 80/100 [1]
Review scores
Source Rating
AbsolutePunk.net 8.8/10 link
Allmusic link
Drowned in Sound 6/10 link
Pitchfork Media 8.6/10 link
PopMatters 8/10 link
Sputnikmusic 3.9/5 link

Track listing

  1. "Ecstasy" - 2:29
  2. "Coalition" - 2:03
  3. "Interlude" - 1:44
  4. "Burning Hand" - 3:22
  5. "In Haze" - 3:01
  6. "Morals" - 3:21
  7. "Everything Drifts" - 2:41
  8. "Wounded Hearts" - 2:29
  9. "It Might Hit First" - 1:22
  10. "Rodfæstet" - 1:45
  11. "Awake" - 2:27
  12. "You're Nothing" - 1:45

References