Préliminaires

Préliminaires
Studio album by
ReleasedMay 25, 2009
RecordedEarly 2009
StudioMassasoit Sound, Woodstock, New York; Crescent Moon Studios, Miami, Florida; The Groove Room, San Rafael, California
Genre
Length36:19
Label
ProducerHal Cragin
Iggy Pop chronology
A Million in Prizes: The Anthology
(2005)
Préliminaires
(2009)
Après
(2012)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic66/100
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic
Drowned in Sound4/10
The Guardian
NME8/10
Pitchfork5.4/10
Rolling Stone
Spin

Préliminaires is the fifteenth studio album by American rock singer Iggy Pop, released in Europe on May 25, 2009 by record label Astralwerks, and in the US on June 2. It was inspired by the singer's reading of Michel Houellebecq's novel La Possibilité d'une île (The Possibility of an Island).