{"id":488128,"date":"2019-07-18T08:04:09","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T14:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=860520"},"modified":"2019-07-18T08:04:09","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T14:04:09","slug":"iggy-pop-previews-new-album-with-meditative-title-track-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/iggy-pop-previews-new-album-with-meditative-title-track-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Iggy Pop Previews New Album With Meditative Title-Track \u2018Free\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/unnamed-1-e1563457644323.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/iggy-pop\/\" id=\"auto-tag_iggy-pop\" data-tag=\"iggy-pop\">Iggy Pop<\/a> has shared a short but mesmerizing new song, \u201cFree,\u201d which will serve as the title-track for his next album, out September 6th via Loma Vista.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cFree\u201d finds Iggy Pop exploring ambient soundscapes tinged with jazz, as soft synths sail underneath a swell of horns and a lead trumpet wanders off on its own path. Iggy Pop\u2019s vocal contributions are simple yet effective in this setting, with the rocker uttering, \u201cI wanna be free\u201d at the beginning and end of the tune.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Free,<\/em> which is available to <a href=\"https:\/\/found.ee\/IG_Free\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">pre-order<\/a>, marks a stark sonic shift for Iggy Pop following his 2016 album, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/post-pop-depression-184641\/\"><em>Post Pop Depression<\/em><\/a>, which was produced by Josh Homme. Iggy Pop recorded <em>Free<\/em> with jazz trumpeter and composer Leron Thomas and Noveller, the solo project of guitarist Sarah Lipstate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In a statement, Iggy Pop described <em>Free<\/em> as \u201can album in which other artists speak for me, but I lend my voice.\u201d He said the album came about after the extensive touring in support of <em>Post Pop Depression<\/em>, which helped him \u201crid myself of the problem of chronic insecurity that had dogged my life and career for too long,\u201d but also left him exhausted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI felt like I wanted to put on shades, turn my back, and walk away,\u201d Iggy Pop continued. \u201cI wanted to be free. I know that\u2019s an illusion, and that freedom is only something you feel, but I have lived my life thus far in the belief that that feeling is all that is worth pursuing; all that you need \u2014 not happiness or love necessarily, but the feeling of being free.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/iggy-pop-new-album-free-860520\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iggy Pop has shared a short but mesmerizing new song, \u201cFree,\u201d which will serve as the title-track for his next album, out September 6th via Loma Vista. \u201cFree\u201d finds Iggy Pop exploring ambient soundscapes tinged with jazz, as soft synths sail underneath a swell of horns and a lead trumpet wanders off on its own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-488128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 21:18:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}