OMMATIDIA(2022)
OMMATIDIA
OMMATIDIA is a grimy, eerie, and intense three-track EP originally released in 2022, arriving just one month after OZARKIANISM. Produced by Toby T and written, recorded, and vocalized by Pop Hitchcock, the project takes its inspiration from the compound eyes of insects and transforms that concept into a strange portrait of society.
Built around a distinctly Halloween-inspired atmosphere, OMMATIDIA is not horror in the traditional sense. There are no masked killers, cheap jump scares, or fictional monsters lurking around the corner. Its horror is much closer to reality—the unsettling realization of how corrupt, dysfunctional, and distorted society can become when viewed from the right perspective.
Across its three tracks, Pop Hitchcock delivers intense social commentary through grimy production, eerie textures, unconventional imagery, and a perspective that feels almost insect-like: hundreds of tiny pieces forming one enormous, disturbing picture. The compound-eye concept becomes a metaphor for perception itself, examining the strange systems, behaviors, and contradictions that surround everyday life.
Produced by Toby T, OMMATIDIA captures a darker side of the Pop Hitchcock catalog—raw, claustrophobic, unsettling, and deliberately uncomfortable.
This isn’t the horror of fiction.
It’s the horror of looking closely at reality.