Iggy Pop Is Dropping His First New Music Since 2016

Iggy Pop has announced his first new album since 2016. 

Titled Free, the album is a collaboration with Leron Thomas and Noveller and will be released on 6 September. 

This is the first new music from the iconic artist since 2016's Post Pop Depression, which was created with Queens Of The Stone Age's Josh Homme. 

"This is an album in which other artists speak for me, but I lend my voice..." shares Pop, real name James Newell Osterberg Jr.

"By the end of the tours following Post Pop Depression, I felt sure that I had rid myself of the problem of chronic insecurity that had dogged my life and career for too long. 

"But I also felt drained. And I felt like I wanted to put on shades, turn my back, and walk away. I wanted to be free. 

"I know that’s 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 - not happiness or love necessarily, but the feeling of being free.

"So this album just kind of happened to me, and I let it happen."

Check out the first track below. 

Pop was most recently in Australia for this year's Bluesfest and sideshow performances. The Music's Hannah Story described Pop's Sydney Opera House show as "masterful", read the review here.