White Poppy is the solo project of Crystal Dorval, a Vancouver-based musician and multimedia artist who describes her music as "therapeutic pop." Her warm, soothing songs feature multiple layers of ethereal vocals bathed in guitar fuzz, and are often grounded by rough drum-machine beats. Initially issuing much of her music on cassette, she's released several LPs on Not Not Fun Records, including 2015's Natural Phenomena and 2023's Sound of Blue.
Dorval initially began creating music in 2009 under the name My Friend Wallis, an Afro-pop-influenced indie pop project in which she...