From Empty Hands to “Hand in My Pocket” — genre-defier Poppy has officially released an Alanis Morissette cover as part of the soundtrack to Canadian indie film Mile End Kicks.
While director Chandler Levack’s coming-of-age film set during Montreal, Quebec’s mid Aughts indie-rock scene premiered at the Toronto International Film Fest last fall, and received a wider theatrical release in April, Poppy’s cover of Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill single formally hit streamers today (May 26th).
If you’re expecting to hear the kinds of blood-curdling metalcore screams Poppy affixed to the heaviest moments of Empty Hands, you’re going to come up…well…empty handed. Instead, Poppy hits a reasonably grounded rendition of the anthemic mid Nineties Morissette number, possibly with one hand playing a piano.
What it all comes down to is this: Poppy’s Alanis cover is streaming up above via Sumerian Records.
As previously reported, Poppy drops into her “Constantly Nowhere” North American headline tour later this summer and then spends her fall supporting Evanescence on a European tour.