Yep, we’re confused too… but certainly not complaining.

In June, Iggy (the Sophisticato) is releasing Préliminaires, a concept album based on the life and novel of French author Michel Houellebecq. Iggy created his own score to the book The Possibility of an Island, which is about “death, sex, the end of the human race, and some other pretty funny stuff”.

I guess the Grandfather of Punk has been experimenting a wee bit – he admits he’s started listening to “a lot of New Orleans-era, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton type of jazz”. The album does include “one vaguely raucous song” but mainly features jazz arrangements, the Edith Piaf standard Autumn Leaves (in French, no less), and an awesome track King of the Dogs in which a dog explains how much cooler canine life is than being a human.

There are too many vids to post them all here. But the most entertaining is certainly the interactive vid for King of the Dogs, where you choose your own doggy lifestyle – miner, businessman, or punk rocker. Of course with each option you get to urinate in public. SCORE!

More? Preview some of the tracks on the widget, or watch the vids:

• Iggy introducing the album
• Full press conference with Iggy
• Photo shoot with Xavier Martin