{"id":2152363,"date":"2025-11-12T20:13:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T20:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2152363"},"modified":"2025-11-12T20:13:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T20:13:29","slug":"poppy-announces-new-album-empty-hands-and-shares-blistering-single-bruised-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/poppy-announces-new-album-empty-hands-and-shares-blistering-single-bruised-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Poppy announces new album &#8216;Empty Hands&#8217; and shares blistering single &#8216;Bruised Sky&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/poppy\">Poppy<\/a>\u00a0has announced her new album \u2018Empty Hands\u2019 and shared the blistering, melodic single\u00a0\u2018Bruised Sky\u2019 \u2013\u00a0listen\u00a0below.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Los Angeles singer will release her seventh studio album on January 23, 2026, via Sumerian Records, the follow-up to \u2018<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/features\/music-features\/poppy-interview-negative-spaces-jordan-fish-3812948\">Negative Spaces<\/a>\u2019, released just 12 months ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Grammy nominee has now shared \u2018Bruised Sky\u2019, a track that finds her wrestling with heavy themes as her vocals range from pained, emo melodies to visceral death metal growls.<\/p>\n<p>The song has been produced and co-written by Poppy\u2019s longtime collaborator and former\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/bring-me-the-horizon\">Bring Me\u00a0The\u00a0Horizon<\/a>\u00a0musician\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/jordan-fish\">Jordan Fish<\/a>, and it comes alongside a video directed by Orie McGinness, which you can watch here:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"POPPY - Bruised Sky (Official Music Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FvaPXCV4cVc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_3908011\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3908011\" style=\"width: 2000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3908011\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Poppy \u2013 \u2018Empty Hands\u2019 artwork<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/poppy-announces-massive-uk-europe-and-australia-2026-tour-3902601\">News of the album comes hot on the heels of the announcement of a UK, European and Australian tour for 2026 for Poppy<\/a>, dubbed the \u2018Constantly Nowhere\u2019 tour. She kicks off in Brisbane on January 20, and arrives in the UK for shows in Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol and London in early March. See all of the dates\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/poppy-announces-massive-uk-europe-and-australia-2026-tour-3902601\">here<\/a>\u00a0and find any remaining tickets\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ticketmaster-uk.tm7559.net\/c\/2862475\/431519\/7559?sharedid=NME&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.co.uk%2Fpoppy-tickets%2Fartist%2F2186490\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Bruised Sky\u2019 follows on from\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/listen-to-poppys-soaring-new-single-unravel-produced-by-jordan-fish-3902075\">another new single last month, \u2018Unravel\u2019<\/a>,\u00a0while Poppy also recently shared\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/poppy-shares-fierce-cover-of-whams-festive-banger-last-christmas-produced-by-jordan-fish-3899439\">a fierce cover of\u00a0Wham!\u2019s\u00a0festival classic \u2018Last Christmas\u2019<\/a>,\u00a0both of which were also produced by Fish.<\/p>\n<p>Poppy worked with Fish on her sixth album, \u2018<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/poppy-announces-new-album-negative-spaces-with-brutal-single-theyre-all-around-us-3796382\">Negative Spaces\u2019<\/a>, and described him as\u00a0<i>\u201c<\/i>such a creative force\u201d during an interview with\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/features\/music-features\/poppy-interview-negative-spaces-jordan-fish-3812948\"><i>NME<\/i>\u00a0in 2024.<\/a>\u00a0Poppy added: \u201cJordan is\u00a0very good\u00a0at tracking performance\u2026We both have an appreciation for heavy music and more saccharine pop music. I think the commonalities in our tastes unite for this record.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fish also\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/features\/music-features\/jordan-fish-production-interview-bring-me-the-horizon-poppy-architects-3823576\">spoke to\u00a0<i>NME\u00a0<\/i><\/a>previously about his work with Poppy on \u2018Negative Spaces\u2019,\u00a0the first full-length album released that he produced in its entirety.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Poppy on her new album &#039;Zig, working with Ali Payami and her Lego collection\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F4OHP8hdn_I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u201cPoppy wanted to do big rock songs, which I can do, I guess,\u201d he told us. \u201cShe started off doing this erratic, genre-shifty music\u2026it\u2019s\u00a0not really my\u00a0expertise\u00a0to constantly change tempo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my mind, she\u00a0hadn\u2019t\u00a0really put together a body of work that felt super coherent, so that was the challenge \u2013 putting her lyrics and\u00a0flavour\u00a0over more conventional song structures. It was a painless process [because]\u00a0she\u2019s\u00a0not particularly stressed about what\u00a0she\u2019s\u00a0making.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in September,\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/evanescence\">Evanescence<\/a>\u2018s Amy Lee,\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/spiritbox\">Spiritbox<\/a>\u2018s Courtney LaPlante and Poppy spoke to\u00a0<i>NME<\/i>\u00a0about their recent\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/evanescence-amy-lee-spiritbox-courtney-laplante-poppy-interview-collab-end-of-you-3890184\">ground-breaking new collaborative track \u2018End Of You\u2019 \u2013 and the chances of the trio releasing more music as a fully-fledged supergroup.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('consent', 'revoke');\n  fbq('init', '370979561341328');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.nme.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poppy\u00a0has announced her new album \u2018Empty Hands\u2019 and shared the blistering, melodic single\u00a0\u2018Bruised Sky\u2019 \u2013\u00a0listen\u00a0below. The\u00a0Los Angeles singer will release her seventh studio album on January 23, 2026, via Sumerian Records, the follow-up to \u2018Negative Spaces\u2019, released just 12 months ago. The Grammy nominee has now shared \u2018Bruised Sky\u2019, a track that finds her wrestling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2152364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[21936,21940],"class_list":["post-2152363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-metal","tag-pop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Poppy-announces-new-album-Empty-Hands-and-shares-blistering-single.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2152363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2152365,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152363\/revisions\/2152365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2152364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2152363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2152363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2152363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}