After Black Grape supported Richard Ashcroft on his UK tour, "Nine Lives" was released as the lead single from the album in June 2017.

The following month, "I Wanna Be Like You" was released as the album's second single, ahead of the band's performances at music festivals, such as Splendour in Nottingham and Rock Against Racism.

[2] Around 2009, Ryder considered reuniting Black Grape and performed one show in 2010 with drum and bass musician Tom Piper covering Kermit's parts.

[6] Veronica Gretton, former head of the band's previous label Radioactive Records, had emailed Ryder to tell him about the upcoming 20th anniversary of It's Great When You're Straight...Yeah.

[10] Happy Mondays had planned to work on another album but progressed slowly due to differences of opinion between members, and two of them were living in North America.

[11] The following month, Leveridge and Ryder collaborated with DJs Paul Oakenfold and Goldie under the name Four Lions to release "We Are England", a football song to tie in with UEFA Euro 2016.

[20][21][22] Discussing the music, Under the Radar writer Lily Moayeri said: "Fluid grooves and flirty funk interludes lace the Motown vibes and big band elements while baggy beats take dips into jazz and lounge territory".

[23] AllMusic reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine said Ryder "reverts to his old loves: '70s soul and disco, big beats and psychedelics, word games and singsong melodies".

[24] Nathan Westley of The Line of Best Fit found it to have "enough nods to Ryder's past [...] to suggest he hasn’t fully escaped the hard partying lifestyle that helped define his most beloved work".

[23][20][28] The horn-laden "Nine Lives" is followed by "Set the Grass on Fire", a brass-enhanced track that touches on ska during the verse sections, recalling the work of Smash Mouth.

[18] "Whiskey, Wine and Ham" evoked "Summertime" (1991) by DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince; it features a beat similar to the one heard in "Funky Drummer" (1970) by James Brown, alongside an electric piano and samples of woodwind instruments.

[20] "Sugar Money" has doo-wop-esque backing vocals, while "Shame" is a funk song that Westley said has "snappy disco basslines collide [that] with dance rhythms".

[20] Jim Gilchrist of The Scotsman wrote that "Young and Dumb", the album's closing track, was a "dubby clubland odyssey about the chemical highs and the comedown lows".

[32] Ryder said one of the track's reoccurring lines, "young, dumb and full of cum", was included as they wished to make a tribute to the work of Bushwick Bill.

[3] Keyboardist Dan Broad and guitarist Mikey Shine, both of whom had been working with Happy Mondays since the early 2000s, aided Black Grape's live set.

[29] Evening Standard's Andre Paine wrote after the opening track, Ryder "gradually rediscovers Black Grape’s unruly groove and seamy, surreal wordplay".

[47] Financial Times writer Ludovic Hunter-Tilney was disappointed in the lyrics because Ryder's "stream-of-consciousness verses were once a kind of bizarre street poetry but here they grow increasingly lacklustre".

[48] According to Westley, Pop Voodoo has an "eminent celebratory spirit that lies at the centre of Black Grape's music, so it’s not surprising that the majority of this album is upbeat in nature".

"[28] The Arts Desk writer Guy Oddy said while it does not match the quality of band's 1990s work, Pop Voodoo is "considerably better than might be expected".

[49] According to Matthew Shaw of Louder Than War, Pop Voodoo is one of "Youth's best production jobs" to date because the mix is "complex, fresh and full of sonic depth".

[29] Erlewine praised Youth for "burying Ryder in the mix, using his voice as just another aural element" because "it keeps the focus firmly on brightly dense rhythms".

[51] Verrico said Youth "attempted to keep their naughty-schoolboy side in check", which he "mostly manages by swathing Shaun Ryder’s rants and Kermit’s raps in funky brass and good-time grooves".