Shock rocker Iggy Pop and Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age and Eagles of Death Metal, last week dramatically announced a collaborative record, Post Pop Depression, with an interview and performance of their first single "Gardenia" on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, and now the band has taken to Zane Lowe's Beats 1 program to drop the second single "Break Into Your Heart."
The two artists are tying to make it clear this is Iggy Pop's album, just with a new band mostly made up of Homme and his cohorts from Queens of the Stone Age. But there's no escaping it, Post Pop Depression has Homme all over this record.
Of course the vocals are all Iggy's and the music is formed around his styling, but the guitar sounds are uniquely Homme's, especially on this new track, which feels like a late-night drug induced jaunt through a city park.
"To me it kind of sounds like Desert Sessions meets motor city punk, in a way it's a real merging of those two worlds," Lowe said on the program.
Dessert Sessions is the musical collective series formed by Homme in 1997, consisting of artists such as Brant Bjork, PJ Harvey, Dean Ween, Troy Van Leeuwen, who is also a member of Iggy's new band, and many more.
"I think on a very base level if we said 'OK, we're all making an Iggy Pop record together and we're his band,' you might quickly assume something," Homme said assuaging any doubts that Post Pop Depression is anything but an Iggy record. "That song ('Break Into Your Heart') quickly says, 'Whatever you thought it is, it's not.' It sets a really good tone."
The band went on to say "Break Into Your Heart" was the first song they recorded together and it's the first track listed on the album.
