What are Sundays all about? Leisure, relief or boredom? So many tracks could fit the bill, but today let’s stretch out with an upbeat, and perhaps unusually happy number from 2016’s Post Pop Depression, the collaboration with Queen of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme as producer and instrumentalist. Or is it? The music certainly seems to be, a melody underpinned by an infectious beat played by Matt Helders of Arctic Monkeys, and a sense of relief as Iggy has "crawled" to this rest day where "I don't have to move" but is feeling a “wreck”. Inevitably though there is a dark humour here, with typically double-edged lines such as “this house is as slick as a senator’s statement / This job is a masquerade of recreation”, and “the street is cold as a corporate lawsuit”. The leathery old Iggy is exhausted from his so-called glamorous lifestyle, and “the days roll on and finally Sunday / a Sunday afternoon / I’ve got it all / And so what now?”. What now, indeed, as Homme helps to pull surprises as the end, with backing singers coming in with the killer line “got all I need and it is killing me”, and a serene, melancholic orchestral coda closes the track. Beautiful, dark, ragged, but there's no stopping Iggy.
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