Post Pop Depression
How do you make a grand statement when you have nothing left to prove? On *Post Pop Depression*, Iggy Pop huddles with Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme, Dead Weather’s Dean Fertita, and Arctic Monkeys’ Matt Helders. The results are wiry, muscular, and shape-shifting, much like Iggy himself. His unctuous cool drips all over slow-burners like “American Valhalla” and “Break Into Your Heart.\" “Vulture” sounds like Iggy reading a twisted campfire story. “Paraguay” and “Chocolate Drops” are as poignant as they are profane. Nearly 50 years from where it all began, *Post Pop Depression* proves that the punk pioneer can still cause a ruckus.
Iggy Pop's newest, which he co-wrote and recorded with Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme, recaptures the avant-rock frisson of his early collaborations with David Bowie.
Iggy Pop is a musical workhorse. He’s released 23 full-length studio albums from 1969 to 2016, and his performative exploits—like self-mutilation, caterwauling screams, and eschewing all manner of T-shirt in favor of bare-chested glory—make him a bonafide legend of punk. Iggy Pop has always pointed a towering…
It may have been misplaced for a while, but Iggy's definitely still got it.
Iggy Pop's Post Pop Depression is an album in which he actually allows himself to walk in shadows, rather than cast a bold…
When it was announced that Iggy Pop would be collaborating with Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age, the music press buzzed with anticipation about the project.
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Iggy Pop's craggy visage and road-worn physique is "central to an understanding of rock music and its place within American culture," artist Jeremy Deller recently said, explaining Pop's turn as a nude model for an upcoming exhibit.
Oh God, I’m really worried Iggy Pop has cancer. This might sound like an irrational overreaction to the mere release of the wrinkly rock
Iggy shuns hard rock in favour of delicate chanson on what the singer says is his final album
Post Pop Depression seeks to deliver a proper send-off for Iggy the songwriter and pop pioneer.
'Post Pop Depression' by Iggy Pop review by Northern Transmissions. The full-length is out March 18 on Rekords Rekords/Loma Vista/Caroline International.
CD: Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression. The mighty Ig takes on death with his new supergroup. Review by Thomas H Green.