''Après'' is the sixteenth studio album by American rock singer

Iggy Pop James Newell Osterberg Jr. (born April 21, 1947), known professionally as Iggy Pop, is an American singer, musician, songwriter and actor. Called the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Godfather of Punk", he was the vocalist and lyricist of ...

Background

Consisting partly of covers sung in French, it was released on 9 May 2012 on Thousand Mile Inc after the album was rejected by

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. Pop said his record company would have 'preferred that I do a rock album with popular punks' and that "They didn't think they would make any money, they didn't think my fans would like it - very sensible attitudes for a sensible sort of person - but that's a different sort of person than I am." The album has been described as containing ″crooning vocals, Cole Porter covers, soft melodies, and an all-around sense of everything suave″. When asked by Bill Flanagan if he had heard any good records lately,

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mentioned ''Après''. The cover photo is referring to the figure ''La Conscience'' played by Iggy Pop in the French movie ''L'Étoile du jour'' (''Morning Star'') by Sophie Blondy.

Track listing

Personnel

Adapted from

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. *Iggy Pop – vocals *Hal Cragin – guitar (tracks 1–9), bass guitar, piano (tracks 3–5, 7, 8), vocals (track 9) *Steven Ulrich – electric guitar (tracks 1, 2) *Danny Blume – acoustic guitar (tracks 1, 2), electric guitar (track 9) *Jerry Zaslavsky – organ (tracks 1, 2) * Jon Cowherd – piano (track 10) *Ben Perowsky (tracks 5, 9),

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(tracks 4, 7), Kevin Hupp (tracks 1–3) – drums, percussion *Jainardo Batista – percussion (tracks 1, 2) *Aaron Halva – tres guitar (tracks 1, 2) *Lucie Aimé (tracks 1, 5), Sarah Fimm (tracks 1, 2, 9) – backing vocals *Tim Ouimette – horn arrangements (tracks 5, 8), horns (track 5), trombone (track 8) *Lulu Gainsbourg – horn arrangement (track 2) Technical *Hal Cragin – producer, engineer, mixing *Andy Tommasi – additional production, engineer *Guillaume le Grontec, Sophie Blondy – photography

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References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Apres Iggy Pop albums 2012 albums Covers albums