“Free is a mysterious, jazz-infused late-period highlight from Iggy Pop”
““Every now and then this voice in me says, ‘You’re getting too straight, you’re getting normal – you need some weird shit.” So said Iggy Pop, rock’n’roll’s once-menacing son and now elder-statesman, at Mad Cool Festival earlier this summer. It was a more sombre moment of reflection in a set that otherwise celebrated his storied past, from the proto-punk glory of The Stooges’ rawest moments to his ”
“At 72, the Iguana proves he's something of a modern-day lounge lizard who, yes, still sings about sex”
“On his meditative collaboration with the ambient guitarist Noveller and jazz trumpeter Leron Thomas, Iggy Pop turns inward.”
“The highlights of Iggy Pop’s solo career have generally come about when he’s been taken under the wing of a big-name collaborator, from Bowie in the 1970s to, more recently, Underworld and Josh Homme, who produced 2016’s Post Pop Depression, scoring Iggy his first UK top five album at the age of 68. True to quixotic form, Free doesn’t build on the success of that record, Iggy veering off at yet an”
“When we last left Iggy Pop, it was on his best, most cohesive record in at least two decades. Written and recorded with Josh Homme, Post Pop Depression was released just weeks after the death of Iggy’s collaborator and patron David Bowie, and exhumed much of the thrilling avant-rock grandeur that typified the work he had made with Bowie on The Idiot and Lust for Life. Post Pop Depression was bille”
