Blog: Consequence Of Sound

The old adage "Word to the Wise" couldn't be used better than in a sentiment to Michigan native Iggy Pop . His latest release, Préliminaires , offers up a schizophrenic agglomeration of new songs that are both cryptically honest, and staggeringly defiant as anything he's ever done before. The trouble is, his album-long lament on the loneliness of growing old sounds as tired as he must have been after scribing a malevolent, indecipherable mess of lyrics that confuse rather than inspire, and hardly ever enlighten those who attempt to find a relative amount of meaning behind them. [...]