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 US leg begins January 22, 2020 in San Francisco, CA, and precedes the already-announced tour in the UK and Europe. Tickets & VIP packages are now – see a full list of tour dates and ticket information HERE.
I DISAGREE TOUR DATES:
Jan 22 – San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall
Jan 24 – Portland, OR – Hawthorne Theatre
Jan 25 – Seattle, WA – Neptune
Jan 27 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Grand at Complex
Jan 28 – Denver, CO – Gothic
Jan 30 – Minneapolis, MN – Amsterdan
Jan 31 – Chicago, IL – The Vic Theatre
Feb 1 – Detroit, MI – The Majestic
Feb 2 – Toronto, ON – Opera House
Feb 4 – Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall
Feb 5 – Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall *SOLD OUT
Feb 6 – New York, NY – Brooklyn Steel
Feb 7 – Philadelphia, PA – Theater of Living Arts
Feb 8 – Washington, D.C. – U Street Music Hall
Feb 10 – Charlotte, NC – Underground
Feb 12 – Tampa, FL – The Orpheum
Feb 14 – Atlanta, GA – The Loft at Center Stage
Feb 15 – St. Louis, MO – Delmar Hall
Feb 16 – Lawrence, KS – Liberty Hall
Feb 19 – Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theatre
Feb 20 – Phoenix, AZ – The Pressroom
Feb 21 – Los Angeles, CA – Fonda Theater
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
Mar 17 – Amsterdam, NL – Melkweg
Mar 18 – Brussels, BE – Orangerie
Mar 20 – Paris, FR – Le Trabendo
Mar 21 – Bochum, DE – Zeche
Mar 22 – Berlin, DE – Columbia Theater
Mar 24 – Munich, DE – Backstage Halle
Mar 25 – Milan, IL – Santeria
Mar 26 – Vienna, AT – Flex
Mar 27 – Zurich, CH – Plaza
Mar 29 – Barcelona, SP – Sala Razzmatazz 2
Mar 30 – Madrid, SP – Sala Caracol
