Granted I didn’t get on the Poppy bandwagon until I heard 2020’s “I Disagree,” which I thought had a few strong hooks that had endless replay value, but the two releases before Poppy’s latest didn’t really entice me the same way, I guess lacking that same “metal” edge that album displayed. However on “Negative Spaces” Poppy delivers the goods on countless hooks that are sure to convert newcomers who may just be turning their heads after the recent Knocked Loose collab. It’s best when Poppy is more in her own metal-pop element and less so in Evanescence’s garment drawer, with the first half of the album jumping out as pretty convincing alternative metal, as well as the panic chords in “the center’s falling out,” and the rockstar anthem that is the album’s title track on the second part of the release being mega songs that could convert Babymetal’s following. Yet it’s those few moments that Tom Morgan highlights so well in his Clash Music review that are a little off putting for me that make the entire record a dash away from being a complete sensation.
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