Après
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Après is the sixteenth studio album by American rock singer Iggy Pop.
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 Virgin EMI Records. 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, Bob Dylan 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
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original artist | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Et si tu n'existais pas" | lyrics: Vito Pallavicini, Pierre Delanoë, Claude Lemesle; music: Pasquale Losito, Salvatore Cutugno | Joe Dassin | 3:36 |
| 2. | "La Javanaise" | Serge Gainsbourg | Serge Gainsbourg | 2:33 |
| 3. | "Everybody's Talkin'" | Fred Neil | Fred Neil | 2:51 |
| 4. | "I'm Going Away Smiling" | Yoko Ono | Yoko Ono | 2:40 |
| 5. | "La Vie en rose" | lyrics: Édith Piaf; music: Louis Guglielmi | Édith Piaf | 2:09 |
| 6. | "Les Passantes" | lyrics: Antoine Pol; music: Georges Brassens | Georges Brassens | 4:12 |
| 7. | "Syracuse" | lyrics: Bernard Dimey; music: Henri Salvador | Henri Salvador | 2:06 |
| 8. | "What Is This Thing Called Love?" | Cole Porter | Cole Porter | 2:51 |
| 9. | "Michelle" | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | The Beatles | 2:45 |
| 10. | "Only the Lonely" | lyrics: Sammy Cahn; music: Jimmy Van Heusen | Frank Sinatra | 2:51 |
Personnel
Taken from CD booklet.
- Iggy Pop – vocals (all tracks)
- Hal Cragin – bass (all tracks), guitar (tracks 1–9), piano (tracks 3–5, 7, 8), vocals (track 9)
- Steven Ulrich – electric guitar (tracks 1, 2)
- Danny Blume – acoustic guitar (tracks 1, 2), guitar (track 9)
- Jerry Zaslavsky – organ (tracks 1, 2)
- Jon Cowherd – piano (track 10)
- Ben Perowsky – drums (tracks 5, 9)
- Jerry Marotta – drums (tracks 4, 7)
- Kevin Hupp – drums (tracks 1–3)
- 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 – string arrangement (track 2)
Technical
- Hal Cragin – production, mixing, and engineering (all tracks)
- Andy Tommasi – additional production and engineering (tracks 1, 2)
- Alfred Figueroa – engineering (tracks 1, 2), additional engineering (tracks 3–10)
- Kevin Hupp – engineering (tracks 1, 2), additional engineering (tracks 3)
- Adam Armstrong – additional engineering (tracks 4, 7)
- Tim Ouimette – additional engineering (tracks 5)
- Dave McNair – mastering (all tracks)
- Guillaume le Grontec, Sophie Blondy – photography
Charts
| Chart (2022) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) | 61 |
External links
- at Discogs (list of releases)