Iggy Pop Announces New Album Free
Iggy Pop has announced a new album, Free. The follow-up to 2016’s Post Pop Depression arrives September 6 via Loma Vista/Caroline International. Listen to a teaser below.
The album, described in a press release as “uniquely somber and contemplative,” features collaborators Noveller and Leron Thomas. “This is an album in which other artists speak for me, but I lend my voice,” Iggy says.
He continues, “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.”
Iggy appears as a caffeine-craving zombie in Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die, in theaters now. Last month he announced a book of lyrics called ’Til Wrong Feels Right, out in October through Penguin Random House. He recently announced his own signature coffee, with notes of “dates, nutmeg, and a long, chocolatey finish,” and some proceeds going towards Girls Rock Camp Alliance.
Originally Appeared on Pitchfork
