Post-genre art and music visionary Poppy has shared a video for ‘Fill The Crown,’ the fourth single from her boundlessly ambitious new album I Disagree (out January 10 via Sumerian).
Rich with allusions to classic arthouse cinema, the video is set in parallel and disparate worlds, mirroring the song’s chasm-spanning approach to genre. The single’s sonic diversity is demonstrative of I Disagree’s variegated nature, which embodies “alternative” in the truest sense of the word, as Poppy bleeds the boundaries between pop, progressive, electronic, and metal, underpinned by unpredictable time signature shifts and indelible earworm vocal hooks.
The album marks a dynamic and deliberate shift for Poppy. Her quiet rise from incalculable phenomenon (with over half-a-billion views on YouTube) to unassuming paragon of high culture, high fashion, and high art has fueled her metamorphosis to “Poppy Version X.” She explains that “in terms of doing what I wanted to in every element from start-to-finish, this feels like my first album. The narrative is really about destroying the things that try to destroy you.” Poppy carefully constructed the sonic framework for this reinvention throughout 2019.Under the influence of everything from Madonna, Air, and Gary Numan to Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson, she took the reins and built the album in an unfiltered and unfettered creative ecosystem of her own design, expanding the sonic palette with an arsenal of analog synths and sonic flourishes.
The album’s impending release will be followed by the massive 36 date (and counting) I Disagree Tour. The UK and European leg of the tour follows her US dates kicking off in Manchester on March 12th 2020. Tickets & VIP packages are now available
Uk Tour dates
Mar 12 – Manchester, UK – Academy 2
Mar 13 – Glasgow, UK – Cathouse *SOLD OUT
Mar 14 – Birmingham, UK – O2 Academy 2
Mar 15 – London, UK – Heaven
