- blues, blues rock
- 36 min
- 12 tracks
- EMI
Préliminaires is the fifteenth studio album by American rock singer Iggy Pop, released in Europe on May 25, 2009, by Astralwerks, and in the US on June 2. It was inspired by the singer's reading of Michel Houellebecq's novel La Possibilité d'une île.
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Character
Spare, character-led, grave and classical in form.
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
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Metacritic 66/100
- AllMusic3.5/5 ★
- Drowned in Sound4/10
- The Guardian4/5 ★
- NME8/10
- Pitchfork5.4/10
- Rolling Stone2.5/5 ★
- Spin3/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1Les Feuilles mortes3:55
- 2I Want to Go to the Beach2:53
- 3King of the Dogs2:02
- 4Je sais que tu sais3:12
- 5Spanish Coast3:58
- 6Nice to Be Dead2:49
- 7How Insensitive3:03
- 8Party Time2:08
- 9He’s Dead / She’s Alive1:60
- 10A Machine for Loving3:16
- 11She’s a Business3:11
- 12Les Feuilles mortes (Marc’s Theme)3:53
12 tracks, 36 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Iggy Pop
- Label
- EMI
- Released
- May 25, 2009
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- FR
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