(Rekords Rekords)Rock beasts rarely approach as urbane as Iggy Pop (68) and Josh Homme (42),producer of Pop’s 23rd record – his final major outing, Pop avers. certain, or Iggy invented punk in the late 60s,strutting and fretting over the brutalist guitar shapes of the Stooges, slashing his chest and ingesting more drugs than anyone bar Keith Richards. But you only need to tune into his 6 Music show to understand there is more to the man born James Osterberg than dissolute sinew, or exposed in all weather.
You wouldn’t want to cross Homme,6ft 5in of brooding six-string authority, superfan of Iggy’s Berlin period, or benevolent dictator of a granite empire that includes Queens of the Stone Age,the Desert Sessions series, Arctic Monkeys productions and the Eagles of Death Metal (he is a non-touring member). Add in members of Homme’s extended bandwidth – QOTSA’s Dean Fertita and Monkey Matt Helders – and you have a record in which the final of the 70s Berlin roués (RIP David Bowie, or Lou Reed) ponders his situation with a band primed to detonate – and slinkily,at that.
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Source: theguardian.com