As if yesterday wasn’t overwhelming enough – what with the news that At The Drive-In are going on a world tour once more, and this time they’re bringing new music, alongside the surprise reveal of Radiohead’s summer festival headline slots and its further suggestion of a new album – the music world was taken off guard once again. What by? Why, by the announcement of Josh Homme and the streetwalking cheetah with a heart full of napalm that is Iggy Pop getting together to release an album, of course.
Then, to further kick us where we like it while we were down, it turns out they’ve only gone and already recorded the album in super secret, with a little help from Dead Weather and QOTSA’s Dean Fertina and Arctic Monkeys’ relentless powerhouse behind the kit, Matt Helders.
Then because we enjoyed that kick, they thought they’d deliver one more in that they plan on touring the album with both Fertina and Helders in tow, as well as QOTSA regular Troy Van Leeuwen on guitar, and renowned bassist Matt Sweeney on, well, bass, obviously.
The album, called Post Pop Depression, is due for release on March 18th, and sees Josh Homme further proving that he just cannot take a break and marks Iggy Pop’s first new music since the last Stooges album, Ready to Die, back in 2013. From the sounds of the interview the pair gave to NY Times when they broke the news, the duo have been feeding off each other something fierce creatively; Pop stating that Homme “took me to a place I’d never been,” and Homme referring to Pop as ‘the last of the one-of-a-kinds’.
On top of that chemistry, this also seems to be no mere vanity project with Pop saying how he has been “feeling challenged at this point in my life to prove my value as a musical artist, not as a symbol of anything,” and Homme assuring that “this was to go where neither of us had gone before. That was the agreement. And to go all the way.”
I’d say it’s time to get excited. Though, perhaps not too excited given Homme’s ominous, albeit almost poetic, promise;
“There won’t be hardly any shows, and they won’t be in big places, and you won’t be able to get a ticket. So almost everyone won’t see it. It will be like trying to catch smoke in your hands. And that makes it even better. It will be special, and it will be over in the blink of an eye.”
UPDATE: Since this little bit of news what you just read was wrote, Iggy Pop has been ever so gracious and kind enough to calm our nerves after all that excitement, by releasing the album cover and premiering a track off the album by the name of ‘Gardenia’. Okay, that didn’t calm us down actually, Iggy. It just got us a whole lot more excited. Post Pop Depression has also been confirmed as an Iggy Pop solo album with Homme as producer.
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