Iggy Pop is re-entering the scene with Free, his follow-up to 2016’s brilliant Post Pop Depression. Pop’s next album will be released September 6 on Loma Vista, but today we’re getting a preview by way of its eponymous lead single.
According to the press release for the album’s announcement, “Free has virtually nothing in common sonically with its predecessor—or with any other Iggy Pop album.” I’m not saying that’s troubling as a whole, considering the brilliance of the Godfather of Punk, buuut this is enough to get you thinking at the very least.
The title track provides a taste of this new direction. Stream the new track below.
Iggy says in the press release:
This is an album in which other artists speak for me, but I lend my voice…
By the end of the tours following Post Pop Depression, I felt sure that I had rid myself of the problem of chronic insecurity that had dogged my life and career for too long.
But I also felt drained. And I felt like I wanted to put on shades, turn my back, and walk away. I wanted to be free. I know that’s an illusion, and that freedom is only something you feel, but I have lived my life thus far in the belief that that feeling is all that is worth pursuing; all that you need – not happiness or love necessarily, but the feeling of being free.
So this album just kind of happened to me, and I let it happen.
Free Tracklisting:
1. Free
2. Loves Missing
3. Sonali
4. James Bond
5. Dirty Sanchez
6. Glow In The Dark
7. Page
8. We Are The People
9. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
10. The Dawn
