In-Edit 2017: American Valhalla

Andreas Neumann, Joshua Homme. France-Germany-USA-UK, 2017. Original language, Spanish subtitles. 82'.

In March of last year, Iggy Pop released his 18th studio album ‘Post Pop Depression’, written and recorded with Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age. This gentle, fan-friendly documentary – co-directed by Homme with fashion photographer Andreas Neumann – tracks the record’s creation, and the tour that followed. It’s all pretty basic stuff: Pop and Homme recount how they headed to a remote studio in the desert outside Joshua Tree to bond and record, before polishing the tracks up in LA and heading out on the road. (Read the full Time Out review.)