Poppy C/D

It is extremely strange and extremely good

watashi wa anata ni doi shimasen

love the depeche mode "grabbing hands grab all they can" reference on "bloodmoney"

in fact i think repurposing an oft-maligned depeche mode lyric kinda summarizes what this album is going for

Yesss I love Depeche Mode and that line is so great ❤️ anyone who hates on DM esp for Everything Counts is clearly a clown though

Well, you've all sold me.

get ready for some riffs ned

the ending of "concrete" kills me, when everything turns into this bright and beautiful ray of positivity while singing 'turn me into a street'

also the drums on "BLOODMONEY" sound a lot like "closer" to me

I didn’t get Closer, but I did get a bit of The Beautiful People from Anything Like Me?

Actually think I’m a bit obsessed with Sit Stay - it’s the whole pre chorus/chorus plus,...that fucking outro is spectacular

turn me into a street!

― ufo, Monday, January 13, 2020 6:45 AM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

just looping through my head all day

djp and... imago (??) to thread

have already heard some of this, it's pretty good! v much in 2019 eoy mode listening-wise but i'll give this a full go within the next day or so

whoa didn’t realise stet had done the @mention feature so soon!

watched a couple of the videos and I don't hate it but so far I'm struggling to hear how it's much more than a basic version of Grimes.

my initial instinct was that it reminds me of some of the stuff Ginger Wildheart has been doing, especially the Hey Hello album, but a full listen might scotch that

watched a couple of the videos and I don't hate it but so far I'm struggling to hear how it's much more than a basic version of Grimes.

― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Tuesday, January 14, 2020 8:59 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lemme know when grimes goes full nu-metal psych-pop

hearing "concrete" was a lot like hearing jellyfish's "joining a fan club" for the first time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwoGhpYdebQ

wish i could vote for it in the ilm poll tbh

You know, this kinda reminds me of Shiina Ringo to an extent.

the Shiina Ringo thread

i enjoy a lot of this! "concrete" is friggin great.

i do feel like the juxtaposition of pop and heavier stuff works best when the heavy stuff is as well thought-out and complex as the poppy stuff -- like the power metal-type leads and straight industrial moments are a lot more interesting than like, chunky limp bizkit riffs.

love the "wouldn't it be nice" reference in concrete too

watched a couple of the videos and I don't hate it but so far I'm struggling to hear how it's much more than a basic version of Grimes.

― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Tuesday, January 14, 2020 8:59 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lemme know when grimes goes full nu-metal psych-pop

― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, January 14, 2020 11:06 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is a good description of one of the videos I watched ("X") but idk it felt less like peanut butter and chocolate and more like peanut butter and mayo (ftr I like mayo).

i have no beef with grimes but she can't write 1 hook let alone 3 in one song

i should say: i have no MUSICAL beef with grimes

also: https://www.metalsucks.net/2020/01/13/hulu-made-a-tv-show-about-the-poppy-mars-argo-titanic-sinclair-drama-and-people-are-pissed/

this is probably entirely the wrong question to ask but to what extent was that sinclair character involved in this new album?

she split from him (and made similar accusations against him)

he has credits on the record but iirc his actual involvement in the songwriting is disputed

didn't realize she just split from him in dec

yep

pic.twitter.com/IJwCBLYiuW

— Poppy (@poppy) December 28, 2019

not that it devalues the music or her art if he is heavily involved obv - just a bit unfortunate

yeah he also directed several of the videos iirc

what is this opening track omg

lol i was waiting for this

the zombies have gone prog hardcore

ok the rest of the album is imo good-to-very-good rather than great (and as i say, tt has already played me like three of its tracks!) but man Concrete

the grimes comparison really only makes sense for "sit/stay", which belongs to the same sort of industrial pop territory as "kill v maim". though if grimes actually made the metal album she kept threatening to i'd imagine it'd probably sound fairly similar to this but probably not as good.

some people like candy
some people like coffee
but these lifeless flaaaavors don't saaatisfyyy meeee

I am not sure how much staying power this will have for me, but it is bringing the lols for me right now. Concrete and Sit/Stay are great. A lot of the twists and turns in other tracks are interesting. At the very least it will be a good gym album.

I like this

I'm a fan. I am digging Poppy. not sure about her ballads but Concrete is a doozy. Turn me into a street indeed.

This is ... something.
Very 90's sounding somehow. 'Concrete' and 'Sit/Stay' the clear highlights. The jarring shifts between "songs within songs" are pretty crazy but kinda gimmicky and distract from some genuinely great musical sequences.

i def thought "this sounds like the late 90s" when i was listening to it

The worst thing that could happen to her is turning into a real person, with real feelings.

Def see the '90s thing.

I'm struggling to hear how it's much more than a basic version of Grimes.

Poppy & Grimes are both mining the same Japanese styles, which, tbf, is a completely irrational thing for me to be annoyed about because people can take influence from wherever, but it does annoy me.

i definitely hear the jpop metal/rock-tinged idol (ie babymetal, momoiro clover z, bis) influence on poppy but i think the influence of jpop on grimes has been pretty overstated beyond her saying she's a fan of like, perfume and kyary in interviews

As I suspected, I loved it this morning when I played it at the gym.

I'm digging this Grimes-goes-Nitzer-Ebb approach.

This & Hot Pink basically most listened on Spotify this month. Don’t really care for the slow ones tbh.

I Disagree joining Concrete and Sit/Stay as the upper tier tracks. Don't Go Outside with all the reprises of previous tracks is awesome too.

glorious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTTEBn_gze0

poppy released a new song about her cat

i'm finally seeing her at the end of march

"eat" not placing in the 77 is an error from which this board will never recover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXbPSCHncJc

apparently going to be on a new EP, stagger, out in october

heavy poppy is the best poppy

new EP whips!!!

"FYB" is the only real heavy poppy song just FYI

it's good! better than flux

Always get excited and immediately disappointed when this thread gets revived because I think it’s a Poppy Family thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXE_NkbWDhw

tremendous cover of kittie's "spit"

kittie rules hell yeah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD9xotOWQSk

"spit" cover is my song of the year

for all those girls who speak contradictions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag3L1fBPo54

i want to like this a little more than i do, this industrial sound is a good fit for her but the song's just missing something?

curious what the album’s gonna be like (comes out in october)

the press release made it sound like it'll generally be along the lines of this & "church outfit" but some of it will have guitars on top of the industrial beats too

it also compares one track to 'mirwais-era madonna' which i have no idea how will fit with the rest of the stuff going on and cites burial, blawan, and a whole bunch of new wave as influences

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reMPqmtYtpU

record's getting not much of a reception but as usual i think it's great. the dnb drum track in this is so good

this feels like the electro record i was expecting kylie minogue to put out this year

the fake pop music in vox lux should've sounded like this

excited to hear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I6di1S0Mqw

"the attic" is the exact same vibe as this great batten girls track

weird album, it's pretty all over the place stylistically. some of it is great but a lot is just ok at best

highlights are "linger" (the burial impression here lol), "the attic" and "prove it"

I just made this my first Poppy album. I really don't like her voice tbh. Good musical ideas though - esp Church Outfit, Hard and Zig.

the ones you should actually listen to are i disagree and the eat ep

Loving 'Motorbike' although the video is disappointingly literal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev_vPbqUlZs