Iggy Pop and Joshua Homme have been been working on a desert opus, as revealed on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert earlier this week.
‘Post Pop Depression’, the 17th album by the punk veteran Iggy Pop, will be available from the 18th March, and sees Homme as co-creator. The pair are joined by Dean Fertitia of The Dead Weather and Arctic Monkeys’ drummer Matt Helders.
“I wanted to be free,” Iggy says of the project. “To be free, I needed to forget. To forget, I needed music. Josh had that in him, so I set out to provoke an encounter-first with a carefully worded text, followed by a deluge of writings all about me. No composer wants to write about nothing. He got revved up and we had a great big rumble in the desert USA.”
“This was to go where neither of us had gone before,” adds Homme. “That was the agreement. And to go all the way.”
In anticipation of the release, ‘Gardenia’ is now available to stream online.
You can also watch Iggy Pop perform the track live on Colbert’s show via YouTube.
TRACKLISTING:
01 Break into Your Heart
02 Gardenia
03 American Valhalla
04 In The Lobby
05 Sunday
06 Vulture
07 German Days
08 Chocolate Drops
09 Paraguay