Preliminaire [Import]

Iggy Pop | Format: Audio CD

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• Audio CD (May 12, 2009)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Emi Japan/Zoom
• ASIN: B001VEH3I6
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,596,582 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4.0 out of 5 stars The Passenger, May 24, 2009

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This review is from: Preliminaire (Audio CD)

Though the album clocks in at a skimpy 36:19, the 12 tracks prove that Iggy Pop has not lost the edge on performance art, and - importantly - without the self-parody that has made a number of releases over the past 20 years nothing but sonic dreck.

Inspired by The Possibility of an Island - a novel by Michel Houellebecq - Pop tones things down through Parisian-styled cafe jazz, with some background electronics and acoustic blues expertly weaved into the mix. There are a few surprises - Autumn Leaves, a 1940s French jazz standard; How Insensitive, a bossa nova standard - but Pop lets it rock on Nice to Be Dead and walks the line with King of the Dogs.

Produced by Hal Cragin, it is a return of Iggy Pop to relevance and within a setting that permits him to be an intriguing storyteller.