{"id":18239,"date":"2019-09-25T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=18239"},"modified":"2019-09-25T06:36:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T13:36:45","slug":"new-music-revue-iggy-pop-gets-half-great-with-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2019\/09\/25\/new-music-revue-iggy-pop-gets-half-great-with-free\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music Revue<\/em>: Iggy Pop gets half-great with Free<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Iggy Pop
\nFree
\n<\/i>(Loma Vista)
\n2.5\/5\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Not only is Iggy Pop alive, but somehow at 72 he\u2019s still making great music. For half a century he\u2019s been the poster boy for punk rock, and he\u2019s still going: on September 6, Pop released his 18th solo album, Free.<\/i> Naturally, expectations <\/i>are high for the follow-up to the Grammy-nominated Post Pop Depression<\/i>. Unfortunately, however, Free<\/i> is only half great.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been 50 years since The Stooges <\/i>hit store shelves, so it\u2019s unfair to expect Pop to reproduce the raw power of early hits like \u201cI Wanna Be Your Dog.\u201d That said, Free <\/i>has some good moments. Oddly, \u201cJames Bond\u201d is the only track getting any airtime, but don\u2019t let that dissuade you. \u201cLoves Missing\u201d showcases Pop\u2019s carefully aged baritone voice, and his thoughts on the state of porn in \u201cDirty Sanchez\u201d will either make you laugh out loud or be deeply offended.<\/p>\n

However, the album is lyrically lazy, and as a whole Free<\/i> lacks flow. Although Pop provides a wide range of sounds\u2014rock and roll, synth, jazz, even poetry\u2014on Free<\/i>, the end result is decent but forgettable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Iggy Pop Free (Loma Vista) 2.5\/5\u00a0 Not only is Iggy Pop alive, but somehow at 72 he\u2019s still making great music. For half a century he\u2019s been the poster boy for punk rock, and he\u2019s still going: on September 6, Pop released his 18th solo album, Free. Naturally, expectations are high for the follow-up to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,240],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-september-25-2019"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t