Icehouse

Icehouse is the debut studio album released by the Australian rock synth-pop band Flowers, later known as Icehouse, on the independent label Regular Records in October 1980. The title and the artist are sometimes incorrectly swapped, because the band changed their name from Flowers to Icehouse after this album was released.

Containing the Top 20 Australian hits "Can't Help Myself", "We Can Get Together" and "Walls"; the album made heavy use of synthesisers, which would continue to be used throughout the band's career. Founder Iva Davies wrote all the tracks including four co-written with keyboardist Michael Hoste; Hoste was replaced during recording sessions by Anthony Smith.

The 1981 international release of the album (i.e. Icehouse by Icehouse) has different cover artwork and was given a new remix by Davies and American recording engineer Ed Thacker. The track "Nothing To Do" was not included.

The Flowers album version of "Can't Help Myself" is unique to the original Regular Records vinyl and cassette releases, with all subsequent CD and vinyl re-issues having the more familiar 7" single mix (or close variants thereof).

The original Flowers album was included in the 2010 book 100 Best Australian Albums.

The song "Icehouse" forms part of the narrative of the 2023 autofiction/horror novel The Shards by American author Bret Easton Ellis, and is used in The Shards (TV series) episode four which first-aired in 2026.

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