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2 years ago today: Poppy released "New Way Out," the lead single off her 2024 album, 'Negative Spaces.'⁠ ⁠ Produced by Jordan Fish shortly after his split with Bring Me the Horizon, the song hits on a "message of self-growth and pulling oneself back from the edge," a theme that bleeds through in the sung-and-screamed energy Poppy pushes into the piece.⁠ ⁠ Supported by hard mechano-swing synth lines, chunked-up industrial-pop riffs and hard-edged snare hits, she contorts her vocal cords around themes of being chased by "demons" and being pushed around by circumstance, but also of persevering through a personal reckoning — though only if "you’re strong enough to lead it."