Lav's Music Corner

Poppy is a computer. Review By Lav: I was very surprised by just how much I loved the bright and punchy synth pop of Poppy's debut album Poppy.Computer  and she has failed to let me down since then. She followed that album up quickly with a change of style on her second record, Am I A Girl? . The album achieves compositional density though interpolations of other genres throughout its runtime and if you haven't heard this record you'll probably be surprised to hear everything from ambient music to nu metal is here. But at its core the songwriting was still sharp and with performances so inexorably catchy it was hard to ignore how high Poppy was flying, on the Choke  EP she continues this high standard of songwriting with a short but cherrypicked selection of wonderful tunes. Choke  was the third single for this EP, it's the title track, and the opening song on the record, so fittingly enough it is absolutely excellent. I can't tell you how much I love the h...