IGGY POP 70S FULL

IGGY POP 70S FULL

The band have already announced a sizeable tour where they’ll play the album in full alongside selected Iggy classics later this year, following its release on March 18. Joining them on it? Arctic Monkeys sticksman Matt Helders and all round honorary Desert Sessions man Dean Fertita, the multi-instrumentalist who’s played with everyone from Jack White to QOTSA to Brendan Benson in recent years. They then recorded the nine tracks that make up the album over two week-long periods. Homme and Pop swapped songwriting notes for months before finally meeting up at the QOTSA man’s home-from-home recording studio, Rancho De La Luna in the Californian desert in January 2015. It goes some way to explaining why Iggy sought out Queens Of The Stone Age’s Josh Homme to co-write Post Pop Depression and head up the recording sessions, which took place early last year. “I feel like I’m closing up after this,” he told me in a Beats 1 radio interview in January (listen below). Post Pop Depression is, potentially, Iggy’s last ever album. They’re among the best things he’s ever done, and all of the above offers proof the ‘godfather of punk’ can turn his hand (voice?) to pretty much any genre in music and get something special out of it. And that’s before you even get round to looking up (and really, you should) ‘Rolodex Propaganda’ and ‘Aisha’ – the two tracks Iggy put out with At The Drive-In and Death In Vegas around the turn of the millennium. 1999’s loungey Avenue B, produced by Don Was of Was (Not Was) fame, is essential listening, as is his fine French jazz record Préliminaires from 2009. Which is a shame, because Pop has actually been churning out fine albums and collaborations for over 45 years now. Everybody knows The Stooges, everybody knows Iggy’s late-70s Bowie-produced Berlin albums, everybody knows his torso and that he’s got a big dick and a penchant for taking even more drugs than Keith Richards in his goggle-eyed prime. Iggy Pop is often thought of as a great, iconic performer and a frontman to pin your dreams to – regardless of how good his music is.

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