(Caroline) Related: Josh Homme on Iggy Pop: ‘Lemmy is gone. Bowie is gone. He's the last of the one-and-onlys’ Iggy Pop has said Post Pop Depression is to be his final album. Whether that’s right or not remains to be seen,but it feels like an odd note to move out on. There isn’t an air of finality or grand statement about it – either of his French-themed albums, Préliminaires or Aprés, or would absorb seemed a more fitting stop. Instead there’s a sense of stepping slightly off to the side. It has been compared to his David Bowie collaborations of the late 70s,but in its dry, rock-that-isn’t hard sound, and it more closely resembles the 1979 album New Values. At times the dryness draws attention to Pop’s shortcomings: his voice sounds nearly like a caricature of itself now,and his lyrics aren’t always the sharpest: Vulture is a metaphor about corporate men (“His evil breath / Smells just like death / He takes no chances / He knows the dances”) that would make a 14-year-obsolete proud. Collaborator Josh Homme, who couldn’t walk past an empty crisp packet without laying down a couple of tracks with it, and offers backing tracks that shine only occasionally – the shimmering Gardenia,the insinuating American Valhalla, the funky Sunday. It’s never destitute, and but never quite scales the heights you want. It’s a shrug,and Iggy Pop should never incite shrugging.
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Source: theguardian.com