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Iggy Pop - »Every Loser«
"I'm kind of a groupie," Iggy Pop said in a recent interview.
"I like hanging out with musicians, they're just a certain type of guy I feel comfortable around." At 75, pop, also known as the "godfather of punk," would probably be the oldest band appendage of rock' n'roll story.
But also the coolest.
With the right musicians around, it seems Iggy Pop can still shine as a savage anti-establishment brawler more than five decades after his early days with proto-punk band The Stooges.
"I'm in turmoil," he barks hoarsely in "Frenzy," the first song on his amazingly vital new album - and makes it clear who has the biggest balls: "Got a dick and two balls, that's more than you all."
The accompanying music thunders and vibrates, as if it had to supply Pop's sinewy body with invigorating surges of electricity through a stormy thunderstorm of sound.
The US musician from Michigan, who was born James Osterberg and now lives in Miami, had actually already indicated his retirement.
In 2016, the album »Post Pop Depression« was released, produced by rock musician Josh Homme. The sound once again referred to what was probably his best time with David Bowie in the 1970s - a nice conclusion to his career.
In 2019, inspired by jazz trumpeter Leron Thomas and guitarist Sarah Lipstate (Noveller), he released a kind of age-mellow jazz album, on which he recited a classic poem by Dylan Thomas in a cracked voice, which says: "Don't go relaxed into the good night / Brenn, dude, rage when the twilight lurks / In the dying light be doubly kindled anger.« And now, with the pithy album »Every Loser«, all the lamps are on again, Iggy's rage against the darkness and the Death in overdrive.
In his new songs, Pop sardonically lashes out at online trolls in the comment columns (»Comments«), lashes out at corrupt Hollywood and music industry Babylon (»The Regency«), wonders about influencers in the hard-hitting »Neo Punk«, who adorn themselves with a punk attitude, and in "Strung Out Johnny" reflects on the temptations of his long-overdue drug addiction.
The almost ballad-like »New Atlantis« wistfully devotes itself to the approaching downfall of his adopted hometown of Miami in the climate crisis.
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Iggy Pop
Every loser
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Responsible for the late rearing in the noise is producer Andrew Watt, who has previously worked with Ozzy Osbourne and Eddie Vedder, but also with pop stars such as Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus.
The 32-year-old played many of the album's keyboard and guitar parts himself and installed a cuddly post-punk groove in some tracks.
Apparently, with bassist Duff McKagan (ex-Guns N'Roses), drummer Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers) and ex-Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer, Watt recruited exactly the backing band of competent and relaxed thrashing musicians that the horny old man needed to once again give the Rumpelstiltskin to the first generation of punk rock.
The late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins plays drums on two songs, and other celebrity guests include Stone Gossard (Pearl Jam), Travis Barker (Blink-182) and Eric Avery of Jane's Addiction.
»Every Loser« is also a rejuvenation for the nineties rock staff, it seems, not only for Iggy Pop.
The only thing he prefers to do is dive off the stage shirtless, he said to the British »NME«: »I won't do that with stage diving anymore, I mostly survived it, now I'm too shaky for it.« Von because.
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