Poppy has dropped a one-off single titled “New Way Out.”
The song comes ahead of her upcoming summer tour supporting Thirty Seconds to Mars (get tickets here) and follows up her recent collaborative singles with Bad Omens (“V.A.N”) and Knocked Loose (“Suffocate“).
Constantly shifting genres, Poppy settles into a modern pop-metal sound on “New Way Out” — a song about “self-growth and pulling oneself back from the edge.”
Electroclash percussion is met with huge stadium rock chords and a decisive pop vocal melody during the verses. Meanwhile, the choruses are a total nu-metal treatment a la Evanescence, with Poppy’s voice soaring over more a melancholic key: “‘Cause they push to pull me down/ And I’m forced to face who I’ve become/ The silence screams so loud/ I caught myself before the bottom… I need a new way, give me a new way out.”
The song immediately calls to mind another of Poppy’s many collaborative singles, “Dead Flowers” with HEALTH, which exercised a shared affinity for industrial, pop, and metal.
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Below you can stream Poppy’s new song “New Way Out.”
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