Stream Iggy Pop and Josh Homme's 'Post Pop Depression'

The punk progenitor and desert rock godfather release their collaborative LP, which Pop claims may be his last

Self-financed and recorded in secrecy with Queens' multi-instrumentalist Dean Fertita and Arctic Monkeys' drummer Matt Helders, Post Pop Depression is due for release next Friday (18 March) via Homme's Rekords Rekords label. 

Speaking to The Skinny in 2013, Homme alluded to a desire to follow up Queens of the Stone Age's ...Like Clockwork in a schizophrenic yin-yang resembling Pop's Berlin output in the 1970s. “Part of me thinks it would be great if this was the point-counterpoint that The Idiot and Lust For Life are, y’know? I love those records so much; they came out in a quick period of time. The Idiot is very dark and Lust For Life is sorta like ‘Tah-daaah!’  I would love to answer this album with a ‘Tah-dah!’ at some point.” 

"I wanted to be free," says Iggy of the impetus for approaching Homme. "To be free, I needed to forget. To forget, I needed music. Josh had that in him, so I set out to provoke an encounter – first with a carefully worded text, followed by a deluge of writings all about me. No composer wants to write about nothing. He got revved up and we had a great big rumble in the desert USA.”

"This was to go where neither of us had gone before," adds Homme. "That was the agreement. And to go all the way."

An augmented lineup of the band (featuring long-term Queens member Troy Van Leeuwen and Matt Sweeney of Chavez) will make its UK debut at London's Royal Albert Hall on 13 May. Listen to the full LP via online American radio specialist NPR below.