As he always has, especially these later years of his solo output, Iggy Pop surprises his listener once again on his latest release, Free. I am a huge fan of Pop’s 2012 Apres, an album of French ballads as much as love what he managed with The Stooges, as with David Bowie, as pretty much all throughout his career. On this, his eighteenth album, the Godfather of Punk meets up with guitarist Noveller (real name Sarah Lipstate) and jazz trumpeter Leron Thomas, to create a 10-song collection Iggy says sees him, “reflecting the exhaustion of post-tour life.”