Over the past decade, Poppy has made the soar from weird YouTube content material creator to avant-garde pop provocateur, to a vibrant rising star in different music, even touchdown her first ever Metallic Hammer cowl in 2024. Final 12 months’s wonderful Unfavourable Areas was a profession high-point, firmly establishing her as one of the very important creatives working within the metallic scene proper now. With all that stated, this is our helpful information to each album she’s launched thus far.
Poppy.Laptop (2017)
Poppy launched herself in 2014 when she began posting surreal, disturbing movies to YouTube as an android-like character who conversed with sentient vegetation and mannequins, watched by an viewers of tens of millions. Her debut album, 2017’s Poppy.Laptop, was written and launched to additional that on-line persona and whereas the bizarre, bubblegum pop of Moshi Moshi and I’m Poppy, with its 8-bit videogame sound results, present flashes of the I’ll-do-what-the-hell-I-want experimentalism that has outlined her complete profession, it has little in frequent with the music she is making as we speak. As such, the album usually feels artificial; the product of Poppy The Character, quite than Poppy The Artist.
Am I A Woman? (2018)
Poppy’s second album noticed her distancing herself from her robotic YouTube persona. Because of this, Am I A Woman? feels extra genuine, whereas the album’s huge vary, from shimmering electro-pop to crashing metallic, feels extra reflective of her preferences. Darker and extra polished than her debut, the pop moments are killer – the off-kilter refrain of Ladies In Bikinis and Diplo-produced Time’s Up are standouts, however the heavy tracks that spherical off the album are probably the most attention-grabbing. X and Play Destroy, a collab with electro-producer Grimes, with their loud bursts of metallic, present a touch of the place Poppy would go together with future information.
I Disagree (2020)
After flirting with heavier sounds on Am I A Woman?, I Disagree was the album that put Poppy firmly on the radar of the metallic group. An LP that revelled in unabashed, superb chaos in a conflict of hyperpop and serrated riffs, it veered between candy and bitter, violent metallic, disturbing imagery and cutesy melodies on Bloodmoney and Sit/Keep. In the meantime, lead single, Concrete, comes throughout like Babymetal on an acid journey. I Disagree was the album the place Poppy established herself as true genre-agnostic, an artist following her personal single-minded imaginative and prescient. Good and addictive.
Flux (2021)
After the heaviness and intense chaos of 2020’s wonderful I Disagree, it felt like Poppy was lastly settling into her groove, just for her to simmer down on 2021’s Flux. In some ways, that is Poppy’s most cohesive album, specializing in grungy tones, Rubbish-esque storage rock and shoegazy textures on Reduce The Harm and On The Degree. Once they do come, as on the biting By no means Discover My Place, the bursts of metallic fury are considerate and well-measured. That is document stacked with wonderful tracks, but when there’s one criticism to be made it’s that Flux lacks that trademark zany, forward-thinking spark current elsewhere in Poppy’s discography.
Zig (2023)
After positioning herself as rock and metallic’s subsequent breakout star on 2020’s I Disagree and 2021’s Flux, her subsequent transfer was to volte-face with a set of throbbing digital bangers. From the darkish pop of Motorcycle, the HEALTH-esque aggression of Church Outfit and nu-metal-meets-industrial title observe, these tracks have been born out Poppy’s want to create music movies that utilised the dance coaching of her youth. Zig is proof you possibly can by no means predict the place Poppy will go subsequent.
Unfavourable Areas (2024)
Firmly embedded within the trendy metallic scene by this level, Poppy made the genius resolution to workforce up with former Convey Me The Horizon man Jordan Fish to provide album quantity six. The consequence was an absolute banger of an alternate metallic album, drawing clear inspiration from Jordan’s previous day job whereas throwing in bonus sonic references through every little thing from Architects and Slipknot to Evanescence, Gap and Avril Lavigne. It was a suitably eclectic palette of influences that resulted in certainly one of 2024’s finest metallic information and Poppy’s finest work thus far.
