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Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression: Live At The Royal Albert Hall

Review by Joe Goggins

We still don’t know if this is where the curtain comes down for Iggy Pop, but if it is, he went out in a white-hot rage»

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Deluxe Triple Vinyl housed in Gatefold with 16 page booklet. This relentlessly energetic show, performed as part of Iggy’s Post Pop Depression tour sees the Godfather of Punk backed by the PPD band of Joshua Homme (Queens Of The Stone Age), Dean Fertita (QOTSA, The Dead Weather) and Matt Helders (Arctic Monkeys). The show, which only six months later is already being spoken of as a legendary event, was undoubtedly one of the live shows of the year and a standout show in a career that continues to push boundaries and confound expectations. The first Iggy Pop album co-created with producer / guitarist / songwriter / multi-instrumentalist / bandleader Joshua Homme, Post Pop Depression began with a succinctly worded text from Iggy to Joshua, and was realized in seclusion with Homme's enlisted aid of his Queens Of The Stone Age bandmate and Dead Weather-man Dean Fertitia and Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders. Both became instantly integral in creating and shaping the Detroit meets Palm Desert by way of old Berlin vibe of Post Pop Depression: Interweaving with and augmenting even more superhuman than expected Iggy vocal performances and Homme's tapestry of guitar, bass, piano and backing vox, Fertitia's talent for wringing the most out of only the most essential notes worked in seamless tandem with Helders' pushing himself and his new bandmates to unforeseeable heights and depths. Post Pop Depression is a singular work that stands proudly alongside the best works of either of its principles, from The Stooges to Queens Of The Stone Age, bearing its creators' undeniable sonic DNA while sounding like nothing they've done before. It's a record that wouldn't exist without either Pop or Homme- and one that probably shouldn't in theory if you really think about it-but it does, and we and rock n roll are all the better for it.
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