Things in Places

Things in Places is a roughly 3.5th project in Pop Hitchcock’s catalog, created alongside Ozark Techno Punk Show I in 2023. While the two projects were developed during the same period, Things in Places explores a very different side of Pop Hitchcock’s music, moving away from the heavier punk and industrial energy and into a more personal world of electronic music, lo-fi hip-hop, experimental production, love, heartbreak, and the human experience.

The project is built around the emotions and memories that become attached to people, places, and moments in our lives. Things in Places explores love and heartbreak not through a traditional narrative, but through atmosphere, electronic textures, lo-fi production, and unconventional songwriting. It is a record about the things we carry with us after experiences are over — the memories, feelings, relationships, and places that continue to exist in our minds long after we have moved on.

Sonically, the project blends lo-fi hip-hop, electronic music, experimental beats, atmospheric production, and abstract sound design. Rather than relying on one consistent formula, Pop Hitchcock uses the project as an opportunity to explore a more emotional and introspective approach to production. The music can feel warm, distant, melancholic, strange, or dreamlike, reflecting the unpredictable nature of memory and emotion.

Created in 2023 alongside Ozark Techno Punk Show I, the project represents another example of Pop Hitchcock’s willingness to work on completely different sounds at the same time. Where Ozark Techno Punk Show I explores industrial music, punk, underground rap, and Ozarks DIY culture, Things in Places turns inward and focuses on relationships, emotional experiences, and the quieter parts of being human.

What makes Things in Places particularly unique within Pop Hitchcock’s catalog is its atmosphere. It doesn’t feel like a continuation of any other album or a straightforward genre experiment. Instead, it exists as its own isolated world — electronic, lo-fi, emotional, abstract, and deeply personal without needing to explain every feeling it explores.

At its core, Things in Places is about love, loss, memory, and the strange ways human experiences become attached to physical places and everyday moments. It is an experimental project that uses music as a way to explore feelings that can be difficult to put into words.

Things in Places is for listeners interested in lo-fi hip-hop, experimental electronic music, atmospheric music, emotional music, abstract production, underground music, alternative hip-hop, electronic beats, and unconventional independent music.