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ALBUM REVIEW: Iggy Pop – Free (Loma Vista Recordings\/Caroline International)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Iggy\nPop is best known as leader of The Stooges, the proto-punks who formed in 1967\nand have disbanded and reunited multiple times since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has an enviable back catalogue, both with the band and as a solo artist, and it\u2019s not for nothing that he\u2019s known as \u2018the Godfather of punk\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now 72, his hellraising days are behind him, and you’re more likely to hear his lived-in croak as a radio DJ on 6Music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He’s also still making interesting and diverse music, as demonstrated by his last album, 2016\u2019s Post Pop Depression, which gave him the highest chart placings of his career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year he released a well-received EP with British electro outfit Underworld, and this 18th<\/sup> album of his solo career sees him collaborating with two more unlikely allies, Noveller (Brooklyn-based guitarist Sarah Lipstate) and American jazz trumpeter Leron Thomas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He\u2019s known for his raw, primitive rock \u2018n\u2019 roll, and while Free couldn\u2019t be any further removed from that, it is nonetheless a very enjoyable album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Opening track Free, which lasts less than two minutes, is short and sweet, and has almost elegiac qualities; the sort of music that you\u2019d perhaps hope you might hear as you are shuffling off this mortal coil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Loves Missing is perhaps the most typical Iggy Pop song on\nhere, set against a gutsy guitar riff, but if you\u2019re expecting more of the same\nyou\u2019d be disappointed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James Bond has a delicious bassline and some squalling\ntrumpet, while Dirty Sanchez begins with some mariachi trumpet and sees Iggy reflecting\non sex, desire and how pornography seeps into society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We Are The People sees his rich baritone voice croaking over\nsome plaintive trumpet and sparse piano, and demands to be listened to, while Do Not Go Gentle Into\nThat Good Night is almost hymn-like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing track The Dawn has a brooding sombreness and a finality to it. I hope this isn\u2019t his last album, because he’s certainly in a creative purple patch right now. 7\/10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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