![]() Homme, making the album was an unexpected culmination of years of admiration for Mr. My dearest friends - how will they un-see that?”įor Mr. Bad things are like a sunset they dissipate over time. “I guess it was my fate to be home and to bring them home. “I wasn’t there by a stroke of fate,” he said. He had planned to be onstage at that show but changed his plans. Homme is also a part-time member of Eagles of Death Metal, the band led by his friend Jesse Hughes that was performing at the Bataclan in Paris when terrorists attacked there in November. Homme, 42, who, as the leader of Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age, has been at the center of the so-called stoner rock that emerged from California’s Palm Desert in the 1990s. He followed those years with an extensive solo career punctuated by Stooges reunions and collaborations with musicians from Green Day to Guns N’ Roses to Best Coast and others eager to acknowledge his influence. Pop, a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, has long been hailed as the primordial punk rocker for the music he made leading the Stooges in the late 1960s and early 1970s: albums of blunt, forceful, noisy and unimpeachably direct songs that he performed with a fearless disregard for self-preservation he often ended up bruised, smeared or bloody. And when you keep going for miles you can’t see these two records any more.” “But without copying it,” he continued, “that direction actually goes for miles. “Where those records pointed, it stopped,” Mr. ![]() In some ways, “Post Pop Depression” also picks up where “Lust for Life” left off. (The group will be making its debut on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” Thursday night.) Pop’s lyrics and the unflinching tone of his voice and the crispness, angularity and deft convolutions of Mr. Its music shows both songwriters’ clear fingerprints: the pithy, hard-nosed clarity of Mr. Homme wrote and recorded together with utmost secrecy and full independence, which is scheduled to be released in March. The new songs are from “Post Pop Depression” (Loma Vista), an album Mr. “With Iggy, compliments are not forthcoming. Homme mimed a wink and a half-concealed thumbs up. “And by the time we get to ‘Lust for Life,’ we’re all sweating and dancing around with this moronic look on our faces. Homme recalled of the group’s initial practice with its singer a few days later. “We’re hanging on by the skin of our teeth, but we’re making it through,” Mr. He had started the rehearsal seated, conserving his energy, but by the end he was strutting. Pop, 68, wore a dark, patterned shirt, baggy black pants and sandals. Pop kept calling for more: first new songs and then oldies from “The Idiot” and “Lust for Life,” his two late-1970s collaborations with David Bowie. After each song, Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age, who assembled the musicians, asked Mr. Pop’s first time singing with the group, which had been preparing on its own, the mood shifted quickly from tension to elation. That humble decision led to one of his best albums in decades.", 4 stars out of 5 - "Instead of headlong heavy rock, Homme reprises the near-baroque poise of QOTSA’s …LIKE CLOCKWORK - itself clearly informed by Berlin-era Iggy, but never resembling a lame remake.", "POST POP DEPRESSION helps Pop and his producer-sideman in equal measure, and it’s one of the better recent releases from both.", "A record that recaptures the avant-rock frisson of Iggy’s Bowie collaborations, in exploratory spirit if not explicitly in sound.LOS ANGELES - “Now that you’re all greased up, how about ‘Lust for Life’?” Iggy Pop said in a voice that was part Midwestern twang, part grizzled prospector to his new band as they rehearsed at a North Hollywood studio. It’s an intelligent, sassy garage rock record that’s obsessed with two things: sex and death.", "The lyrics here are some of the finest Iggy has ever written, perfectly balancing out a more morbid line of thought than he’s followed before with an undiminished lust for late life.", "The raw, powerful 'American Valhalla' confronts the afterlife with a shudder over a glowering bass thud.", "POST POP DEPRESSION is an album in which Iggy allows himself to walk in shadows, rather than cast a bold new shadow of his own. 4 stars out of 5 - "On his awesomely gnarled 17th solo album, he plays the low-rent elder statesman, a spectacularly scuzzball Leonard Cohen still snarling, still hoping to get his rocks off.", "Iggy’s vocals and lyrics are astounding - he’s like an angry young man all over again, and is far more gnarly and potent than any of his contemporaries.
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