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- Summary: The fifth full-length studio release from Los Angeles-based artist Poppy was inspired by the music of Blondie, David Bowie, Burial, DJ Blawan, Gary Numan, Talking Heads, and Tom Tom Club.
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- Record Label: Sumerian Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Mixed: 3 out of 5
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Nov 3, 2023Zig ends up being her most focused and mature work to date, one that finds her spreading her wings and expanding her arsenal yet again.
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Nov 3, 2023Polished production courses through veins of Zig, with each track elevated above its component parts, as the genre-muddling star incorporates elements of industrial, metal and jungle amongst the record’s heavier junctures, with piano and cello bolstering the album’s more delicate passages.
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Nov 3, 2023Aside from the disco-fied “Motorbike,” inspired by Jack Cardiff’s 1968 drama The Girl on a Motorcycle, most of Zig takes few such risks. As a result, Poppy has become what she’s successfully evaded up to this point: predictable.
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Nov 3, 2023Poppy seems to be restrained here – as if something is holding her back from embracing her typically wild and unconventional whims. Next time, I hope she grabs that sword and cuts herself free of whatever led to this.
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Nov 6, 2023Weak and boring are never words we’d have ever thought apply to Poppy’s music, but alas here we are – hoping for the ‘Zag’ to come.