Our RTÉ Radio 1 Album of the Week is a great, energising opening blast for 2023, a loud and lairy rock album jam-packed with the lust for life that has characterised Iggy Pop's whole career - listen to Every Loser below, via Spotify.
What the critics are saying:
The Irish Times: 'Every Loser sounds like an album that will fully come to life live, although Pop has said he is abandoning stage-diving at this stage in his career. He is a great choice to lead the charge at this year's Altogether Now.'
Variety: Save for a few woozily ambient, spoken-word blips, Every Loser goes from metallic harangues such as Frenzy — with Iggy singing at his juvenile-delinquent finest, backed by a bevy of boyish harmony vocalists — to riff-heavy, mid-tempo rockers like Strung Out Johnny, where Pop's ground-swelling baritone warble makes its gravitas known.
Kerrang: 'Every Loser is superb. But more importantly it encapsulates Iggy's essence, not by reframing for a modern audience or pandering to trends, but drawing out the timeless qualities of its author: his anger, his sense of wonder and romance, and his downright strangeness. You'd be hard-pressed to find an album catering for more moods in 2023. Live in it – it’s a hell of a place to be.'
Listen to this week's RTÉ Radio 1 Recommends playlist below:
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