The follow-up to Iggy And The Stooges proto-punk masterpiece Raw Power will finally be out April 26, when Warner Music Australia and Fat Possum Records releases their all-new studio album Ready To Die.
Australian fans get a something rather speacial in the form of one extra song on the CD and download editions – the crunching rocker ‘Dying Breed’.
Iggy recently said: "My motivation in making any record with the group at this point is no longer personal. It's just a pig-headed fucking thing I have that a real fucking group when they're an older group they also make fucking records. They don't just go and twiddle around on stage to make a bunch of fucking money..."
Ready To Die finds Iggy Pop, guitarist James Williamson and drummer Scott "Rock Action" Asheton reunited for a full album of all-new material for the first time since the legendary Raw Power sessions, with Mike Watt filling in for the late Ron Asheton on bass.
The new album's opening one-two of Burn and Sex & Money pair sublimely blunt and self-explanatory subject matter with back alley razor-blade guitars and a troglodytic rhythmic stomp as intensely single-minded as Iggy's lyrical statements of intent.
Elsewhere on the album, anthems abound in the form of the most dead-on rallying cry for the lower-working-class dispossessed to date -the succinctly and aptly titled Job, as well as a title track that mixes a signature Iggy Pop mission statement of angry desperation with guitar pyrotechnics that recall those halcyon opening salvos of Search & Destroy.
“A real fucking group... they also make fucking records. They don't just go and twiddle around on stage to make a bunch of fucking money” – Iggy Pop
Iggy & The Stooges Australian Tour: With special guests: The Beasts of Bourbon
Monday 25 March @ Thebarton Theatre, Adelaide
Tickets at venuetix.com.au
Wednesday 27 March @ Festival Hall, Melbourne
Tickets at ticketmaster.com.au
Tuesday 2 April @ Hordern Pavilion, Sydney
Tickets at ticketek.com.au
Saturday 23 March @ West Coast Blues ‘n’ Roots, Perth
Tickets at westcoastbluesnroots.com.au
Saturday 30 March @ Byron Bay Blues Festival, Byron Bay
Tickets at bluesfest.com.au
