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90
Poppy's gloves are still off on Empty Hands, which feels like a straightforward continuation of 2024's Negative Spaces, rather than a stylistic pivot (as she's been doing on each album in her catalog thus far).
2mo
90
Defiant in its ambition but never disingenuous or forced.
3mo
85
At the end of the day, "Empty Hands" sounds like Poppy doing exactly what she wants, without overthinking it. When she's fired up and emotionally invested, her music hits on another level, and this album captures that energy from start to finish.
4mo
80
In a musical landscape preoccupied with authenticity tests and genre boundaries, ‘Empty Hands’ feels unconcerned with both. It is a direct and emotionally driven album from an artist who understands her tools and trusts her instincts.
3mo
80
This is what it sounds like when Poppy is properly in her element. When she’s got something that lights her on fire, she’s unstoppable, and this is how she’s been able to write possibly her best songs yet.
4mo
70
The versatile metalcore singer amplifies all her strengths on her seventh album—it’s heavier, savvier, and quirkier than ever.
4mo
70
‘Empty Hands’ finds Poppy at the height of her confidence, transforming restless energy into something both precise and unpredictable. The record balances weight with playfulness, heaviness with nuance, and intensity with reflection, showing how far she’s come while still chasing new territory.
4mo
60
Empty Hands is a slight step down from Negative Spaces.
4mo
60
Poppy has always been one to incorporate metal into her weird pop ideas, but on Empty Hands it often feels as though her own concepts take a backseat to shiny radio metal necessities.
4mo
54
This isn't a djent album by any means, but it has too much in common with modern djent, metalcore and/or alternative metal to ever really push any boundaries or give the listener anything to sink their teeth into.
4mo
ACOUSTIC ART
When it comes to Poppy, the very concept of Rock is harshly questioned, and I myself wonder if I'll ever find the words to describe her next step... yet this is precisely the fascinating and mysterious side of this girl.
An insatiable creative drive has fueled Poppy's surreal ascent through countless corners of the Art and Music worlds.
Each of her projects so far has revealed a different fragment of a true visionary, indifferent to genre, unconcerned with convention, ... read more
The Jordan-Fish-production-bubble is about to burst, I can feel it. It's such a squeaky clean record, it's lost the essence of what made "I Disagree" or "Negative Spaces" special in the first place. It's a hard thing to say, but I can't help but feel Poppy is trying to please too many people with this release. Even songs like "Unravel" and "Eat The Hate" feel so restrained, despite the screams and heavy vocals. It doesn't feel ... read more
The sound becomes a little reppetitive overtime, and it becomes a little monotonous. But there are songs that are the highlights, and those are PURE. GOLD. LIKE WTFFFF THE INTRO AND THE OUTRO???? EAT THE HATE???? THOSE ARE FR SOME OF THE BEST SONGS THIS YEAR.
CUZ YOU'LL HATE
EITHER WAY
I'LL EAT THE HAAAAATEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Mashup of a more cutesy version of Avril Lavigne and Bring Me The Horizon
She honestly scares me a little bit.
I definetly liked it coming from an metal album, and i dont really enjoy metal and its not definetly my favourite genre, its also my first time hearing a metal album, the only thing i hate about metal is the growled screams.
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Track List
| 1 | Public Domain 4:00 | 75 |
| 2 | Bruised Sky 3:40 | 78 |
| 3 | Guardian 3:14 | 70 |
| 4 | Constantly Nowhere 0:28 | 60 |
| 5 | Unravel 2:55 | 71 |
| 6 | Dying To Forget 3:33 | 75 |
| 7 | Time Will Tell 3:27 | 70 |
| 8 | Eat The Hate 1:50 | 67 |
| 9 | The Wait 3:46 | 70 |
| 10 | If We're Following The Light 4:06 | 71 |
| 11 | Blink 0:44 | 61 |
| 12 | Ribs 3:39 | 72 |
| 13 | Empty Hands 3:09 | 74 |
Total Length: 38 minutes
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5d
This is not djent at all. A lot of modern djent artists have similar sounding songs but the defining element of djent is the palm muted guitar riffs with a ton of bends. Literally where the term djent comes from and there’s none of that on here.
2w
Would it be crazy to say I want Poppy to turn slightly away from the metal direction and go in a more hardcore/mathcore leaning direction? She’s mentioned liking Norma Jean and said her and Stephen from House of Protection (who was also in the hardcore band The Chariot) like to listen to Botch. Say Cheese incorporated some of those influences and is one of her best heavy songs. And say cheese has a really catchy chorus so she wouldn’t have to do away with that at all. I would really enjoy a whole album in that style from her, I think keeping the style of electronics she uses currently could also make that sound feel fresh and interesting.
