Poppy has announced her new album ‘Empty Hands’ and shared the blistering, melodic single ‘Bruised Sky’ – listen below.
The Los Angeles singer will release her seventh studio album on January 23, 2026, via Sumerian Records, the follow-up to ‘Negative Spaces’, released just 12 months ago.
The Grammy nominee has now shared ‘Bruised Sky’, a track that finds her wrestling with heavy themes as her vocals range from pained, emo melodies to visceral death metal growls.
The song has been produced and co-written by Poppy’s longtime collaborator and former Bring Me The Horizon musician Jordan Fish, and it comes alongside a video directed by Orie McGinness, which you can watch here:
News of the album comes hot on the heels of the announcement of a UK, European and Australian tour for 2026 for Poppy, dubbed the ‘Constantly Nowhere’ 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 here and find any remaining tickets here.
‘Bruised Sky’ follows on from another new single last month, ‘Unravel’, while Poppy also recently shared a fierce cover of Wham!’s festival classic ‘Last Christmas’, both of which were also produced by Fish.
Poppy worked with Fish on her sixth album, ‘Negative Spaces’, and described him as “such a creative force” during an interview with NME in 2024. Poppy added: “Jordan is very good at tracking performance…We both have an appreciation for heavy music and more saccharine pop music. I think the commonalities in our tastes unite for this record.”
Fish also spoke to NME previously about his work with Poppy on ‘Negative Spaces’, the first full-length album released that he produced in its entirety.
“Poppy wanted to do big rock songs, which I can do, I guess,” he told us. “She started off doing this erratic, genre-shifty music…it’s not really my expertise to constantly change tempo.
“In my mind, she hadn’t really put together a body of work that felt super coherent, so that was the challenge – putting her lyrics and flavour over more conventional song structures. It was a painless process [because] she’s not particularly stressed about what she’s making.”
Meanwhile, in September, Evanescence‘s Amy Lee, Spiritbox‘s Courtney LaPlante and Poppy spoke to NME about their recent ground-breaking new collaborative track ‘End Of You’ – and the chances of the trio releasing more music as a fully-fledged supergroup.
