I must admit I feel a sort of pleasure culpable for supergroups. These blunderbuss of musicians known for other projects and occasionally or permanently come together to make music.
I say it's a guilty pleasure because the thing does not always work. I explain better: There are fantastic and beautiful things like Cream, Them Crooked Vultures and The Postal Service, but there are also forgettable scarecrows as Chickenfoot or SuperHeavy.
We have formidable examples "cult" like Temple Of The Dog, The Traveling Wilburys or The Dirty Mac, and those which made us a while and then plummeting into the void, said of Velvet Revolver or Audioslave.
(And let alone the Metallica album with Lou Reed, for our health we will imagine that simply did not exist)
In this vein, on Friday unexpectedly he unveiled another project that deeply caught my attention because I saw it coming but not makes sense from the angle you see it .
'Post Pop Depression' is the title of the culprit work of my surprise and that of many, that in addition to show its refined profile beforehand decides revealed on the show Stephen Colbert. The summary is as follows:
Iggy Pop sent him a little message to Josh Homme (leader of Queens of the Stone Age) commenting that "maybe they could write something and recorded" and without many compromises. Josh replied that ok but had to keep it secret and independently of record labels, to shake off pressures, delivery times, intermediaries and gentlemen with tie. Not content with this, also called for the project to two of his friends: the Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders and guitarist Dean Fertita of The Dead Weather and also Qota.
The announcement came with live presentation from the same program revealing other interesting faces in the blunderbuss. On keyboards Troy Van Leeuwen, the other Qota guitarist and musician who has gone through the lines of bands like A Perfect Circle or Eagles of Death Metal, among many others. In the under Mr. Matt Sweeney, a producer who has worked with a crowd and has a post hardcore band Half math rock called Chavez (yes, haha).
The first single, "Gardenia" maintains a sexy sound essence would answer but that recalls the work of Iggy in Berlin with David Bowie in the seventies ( 'The Idiot' and 'Lust for Life') but needs facing each is aged maturity over the years , pallets and crowd surfing, in turn amalgamated with modernity and sound complexity that only Josh and his combo could impart.
If you do not yet have convinced this though secrecy was entirely logical for the reasons described above, Iggy said that the time to think about making a new album "I felt I had changed at this point in his life and had to prove his worth as an artist musical, not a symbol of anything. " For his part, Josh let them know in interviews that hear these discs Godfather of Punk with White Duke was that he decided to end his first band Kyuss and start from scratch.
The most sought reinvent itself and the lower saw the opportunity to work with his idol and refine the legacy of the work that inspired both. Go there moments that fit perfectly.
Everything points to be good stuff. And hopefully so. It is one of those projects that do not keep it in the bag pavoso, but quite the opposite, that is those who put it in the drawer of memory to keep with affection, and opened occasionally to feed ourselves musically.
Welcome back, Iggy.
