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).

Pop also admitted that the album is his response to being "sick of listening to idiot thugs with guitars banging out crappy music".

The album also includes "How Insensitive", a jazzy bossa nova standard composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim, and "Nice to Be Dead", more of a swamp rock song.

Marjane and Pop met when she asked him to voice one of the characters in the English-language version of her Academy-award nominated movie Persepolis in 2007.