Kern Posted October 12, 2023 Share Posted October 12, 2023 Hmmm let me listen later but I hope it’s not that bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kern Posted October 12, 2023 Share Posted October 12, 2023 Ohh Zig (track) goes hard! It should've been a single. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supervillain Posted October 12, 2023 Share Posted October 12, 2023 This is absolutely fantastic, I loved all songs Flicker might be my favorite song but everything is so solid like woah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonfly Posted October 12, 2023 Share Posted October 12, 2023 I was not expecting to like this as much as I do Hard and Zig >>> Sad that it leaked so early Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnWayneHolland Posted October 12, 2023 Share Posted October 12, 2023 I'm gonna be honest I kinda didn't like this on my initial listen it actually is my least favorite album from her (excluding Poppy.Computer). I'll give it another listen when it gets officially released but... Idk if it will grow on me tbh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK_Lover Posted October 12, 2023 Share Posted October 12, 2023 The tack Zig wow…amazing project Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Posted October 21, 2023 Share Posted October 21, 2023 I had low expectations due to the singles but oh **** the album tracks are pretty great. 1s & 0s Zig Hard Linger I'm in Linger right now, enjoying it so much and I'm very excited for what's next (except Motorbike, worst song so far). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellenthin Posted October 22, 2023 Share Posted October 22, 2023 Patiently waiting for the official release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brooklyndaddy Posted October 22, 2023 Share Posted October 22, 2023 Hard is so good from the singles, I only liked this and Church Outfit. Is the rest of the album more like those or the pop stuff? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kern Posted October 22, 2023 Share Posted October 22, 2023 8 minutes ago, brooklyndaddy said: Hard is so good from the singles, I only liked this and Church Outfit. Is the rest of the album more like those or the pop stuff? Album has a lot of slower moments than the singles. Only bop left is Zig, the rest has a different vibe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Palmer Posted October 26, 2023 Share Posted October 26, 2023 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Posted October 26, 2023 Share Posted October 26, 2023 is the album dark pop or a mix with metal again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kern Posted October 26, 2023 Share Posted October 26, 2023 9 minutes ago, Gold said: is the album dark pop or a mix with metal again? Dark electronic pop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brooklyndaddy Posted October 26, 2023 Share Posted October 26, 2023 This isn't working for me. It feels like a step back. The biggest issue I'm having is with the production on a lot these. There are great ideas (cool distortion, playing with time signatures, great drum beats) and I like the overall dark pop kind of direction. The issue is these concepts feel very half baked and don't really go anywhere. My first thought was "this sounds like a generic pop producer's attempt at making something vaguely more experimental"... and this is indeed the case. Ali Piyami's fingerprints are all over this and it works against Poppy's favor. Everything just feels very... mid? There is a real lack of intricacy with a lot of the mixing and the end result sounds overly simplistic. The parts that are supposed to go hard don't go hard enough, there parts that should be soft and build tension just feel low energy. There's little sharpness to the production that was really needed. Even with her vocals, it's all very mid range EQ wise so her performance on most of this doesn't stand out over the music either. It's just mid mellow dark pop mush. The singles are definitely the best this thing has to offer, Church Outfit being the strongest all around in my opinion. Hope she does not continue working with Piyami because this is just so beneath what she's capable of. This is like a 6/10 for me personally, it's a little better than an average pop album 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kern Posted October 26, 2023 Share Posted October 26, 2023 30 minutes ago, brooklyndaddy said: The singles are definitely the best this thing has to offer, Church Outfit being the strongest all around in my opinion. Hope she does not continue working with Piyami because this is just so beneath what she's capable of. I agree with this, Church Outfit is the best one. I like Zig and Flicker too but overall it's weaker album than Flux. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kintsugi Posted October 26, 2023 Share Posted October 26, 2023 great album Hard is no exaggeration the worst song I've heard this year and Prove It is mid, but I love everything else 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireFade Posted October 26, 2023 Share Posted October 26, 2023 really love Hard gonna stream this album tomorrow all day I think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smoore95GAGA Posted October 26, 2023 Share Posted October 26, 2023 18 minutes ago, Kintsugi said: Hard is no exaggeration the worst song I've heard this year 10 minutes ago, FireFade said: really love Hard Nnn not these being back to back comments as well 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smoore95GAGA Posted October 26, 2023 Share Posted October 26, 2023 I’ll start off by trying to be nice and say that high school me would’ve loved this With that said, this simply ain’t it. I really thought she had found her sound with Flux, but this feels like her going back to the poppier sounds of her first two albums with a bit of the edginess of her more recent material. It feels like a very confused album that doesn’t know what it wants to be, which is in stark contrast to the confident alternative rock of Flux. Like another user already said, I do appreciate the experimenting going on here, it’s just that for most of the album it just doesn’t work. Knockoff and Motorbike are bops tho! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kern Posted October 26, 2023 Share Posted October 26, 2023 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perpetual novice Posted October 26, 2023 Share Posted October 26, 2023 This album feels confused and completely throws away the creative progression that culminated in Flux. That record was her most accomplished body of work yet and tracks like Her and Bloom were straight up just some of the best rock songs of that year period, no superlatives. There's no beating around the bush that it underperformed though, and this feels like a tentative step back to see how that goes for the numbers. Motorbike is a bop but beneath her ability and whoever mixed and mastered Hard needs to give her a refund. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCTV Posted October 27, 2023 Share Posted October 27, 2023 Im getting more excited for this the more people say it's "poppier" lmao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smoore95GAGA Posted October 27, 2023 Share Posted October 27, 2023 1 hour ago, LCTV said: Im getting more excited for this the more people say it's "poppier" lmao It’s dark pop, so if that’s your thing then you’ll probably enjoy it… mostly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ImpassiveThomas Posted October 27, 2023 Share Posted October 27, 2023 What It Becomes, Linger, and The Attic are career highlights 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brooklyndaddy Posted October 27, 2023 Share Posted October 27, 2023 This album just made me feel like listening to Nine Inch Nails dreaming of a Trent Reznor produced Poppy project now because this sounds like a Wish.com version of Pretty Hate Machine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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