Poppy might be probably the most unpredictable inventive the choice scene has ever produced. A veritable strolling/dancing/singing/screeching magpie of music, over the course of 5 studio albums she’s flirted with (deep breath…) hyper pop, EDM, punk rock, grunge, reggae, nu metallic, industrial, indie and metalcore. Did we miss something? Most likely. Anyway, she’s additionally coated everybody from Tatu and Kittie to Mac DeMarco and the Pokémon theme, and collaborated with Unhealthy Omens, Diplo, Well being, Knocked Free, Fever 333 and Grimes. And that is all earlier than you get into her numerous, weird-as-fuck video tasks.
For album quantity six, Poppy has determined to hone in and focus her energies on making a full-on trendy metallic file, bringing in former Deliver Me The Horizon man Jordan Fish on manufacturing duties. It is proved to be one thing of a masterstroke. Adverse Areas is not simply an excellently put collectively album stacked with arena-ready bangers; it sounds completely large, crushing opener have you ever head sufficient? instantly bringing to thoughts the sound and really feel that Fish made his bread and butter in his earlier job.
Deliver Me The Horizon are under no circumstances the one apparent contact factors right here, although – Adverse Areas is stuffed with nods to the artists which have closely influenced Poppy’s newest flip. They’re throughout us merges Slipknot‘s blastbeat-driven rage with the shimmering, anthemic alt metallic of Spiritbox (with a bonus, Sam Carter-esque bleurgh! chucked in for good measure); surviving on defiance paddles within the pop-fused tech-metal waters which have taken Sleep Token into arenas; very important appears like Avril Lavigne if she was produced by…nicely…Jordan Fish! In the meantime, Gap loom massive over the title observe’s 90s grunge fuzz, and there is even area for a few full-on David Draiman-style monkey hollers on propulsive, industrial-core reduce New Method Out.
If this all sounds prefer it’s portray Adverse Areas as spinoff, do not fret: Poppy’s personal, off-kilter idiosyncrasies are stamped all over, and there are some welcome detours that snap the album out of its metallic groove. crystallized‘s cutesy synth-pop sounds nearer to The Weeknd than something that’d get a glance in on Warped Tour, whereas hey there is a floating, woozy, meandering respite from the noise. By the point the emo-powered area rock of halo attracts issues to a detailed, you are lengthy performed with counting reference factors. Poppy might need apparent influences, however she’s channelled these into crafting one of many catchiest, most constant data of 2024.
Adverse Areas is out now
