Iggy Pop has revealed he purposefully avoided established record labels when planning his new album ‘Apres‘, as he felt the majors – whom he claims to have only ‘humiliated’ him down the years – would shun the Gallic-inspired record.
“They would have preferred that I do a rock album with popular punks, sort of like ‘Hi Dad!’ – I was not going to do that,” Iggy said at a press conference for the record launch in Paris, reports The Telegraph. “What has a record company ever done for me but humiliate and torment and drag me down?”
Iggy Pop has covered The Beatles‘ ‘Michelle‘ amongst others for the album which was released directly online this week. Also featuring are songs by the likes of Frank Sinatra and Edith Piaf as part of an album primarily focusing on French culture, whose songs Iggy believes have ‘most stubbornly resisted the mortal attacks of the Anglo-American music machine’.