• Brand new album of 10 cover versions, emanating from Iggy’s increasing fascination with all things French.

• The album features songs by Serge Gainsbourg, Georges Brassens, Edith Piaf, Yves Montand and Joe Dassin, which Iggy takes on in their original language, sitting with others from Lennon/McCartney, Frank Sinatra and Roy Orbison.

• We see James Osterberg as The Singer, rather than the performer, turning attention to songs which have inspired him over the years, and a vocal style only glimpsed at during short moments in his career.

“All popular music forms of today get their strength from the beat. Rap, hip-hop, metal, pop, and rock producers will tell you that the beats they use imitate the human heartbeat and that is where the power lies. The feeling of listening to any of these forms is always some variation on excitement, but before the birth of the blues there was another form of popular song, in which the timing comes from the human breath and the feelings are much more about emotion. These older ways of expression were known variously as bel canto, chanson, plainsong or just folk music. I've always loved this other feeling, one that is intimate, sometimes a little sad, and does not try to beat me on the head. So I wanted to sing some of these songs myself, hoping to bring the feeling I felt as a listener to my listeners through my voice. Many of these songs are in French, probably because it is French culture which has most stubbornly resisted the mortal attacks of the Anglo-American music machine.“
Iggy Pop