Having came and went in what feels like such a short period of time, to say 2018 was a big year for music is an understatement. With so many releases and developments within the industry there are many tracks that I could talk about but frankly, this post would take days to read. So instead I give you, over the next few weeks, a select handful of my favourite songs released in the past year.

Iceage – “Broken Hours”

Being released at the tail-end of the year, the Danish punk outfit hits us with a very strong single. Having been debuted back at Pitchfork’s Music Festival back in 2015 and being met with great reception by the crowd, fans have been waiting for the official release of the song and it is fair to say that after the years of waiting it has been worth it.

Initially starting with huge, overdriven guitar chords played in a chromatic sequence it’s easy to tell this is your classic Iceage track. being driven primarily by a pounding bassline throughout the verses, building up to a huge chorus where frontman, Elias Bender-Ronnefelt’s almost pained shouting becomes the focal point of the song then calming down once more and settling back into the guitar and bass driven verse.

Definitely a long awaited release by myself and many others, Iceage fails to disappoint as of yet. You can listen to the track for yourself here.