SLINKY! (2022)
SLINKY!

SLINKY! is a multi-track instrumental album from Pop Hitchcock, diving into some of his most abstract, experimental, and unorthodox production. Built from strange sounds, unconventional rhythms, and fragments of music originally created for Stories & Lore / Ozark TV, the project feels less like a traditional beat tape and more like the soundtrack to a psychedelic cartoon that somehow escaped its television.
Many of the pieces were originally created as music for animations, bumpers, transitions, and short-form segments, resulting in a collection where most tracks are under a minute long. Rather than developing into conventional songs, these miniature compositions appear, mutate, and disappear almost as quickly as they arrive.
The production is intentionally bizarre—warped, playful, disorienting, and difficult to categorize. Each track introduces another strange sonic environment, jumping between ideas without feeling obligated to follow traditional song structures or expectations.
SLINKY! captures Pop Hitchcock at his most experimental: a collection of musical sketches that feel like they were pulled directly from a forgotten television channel broadcasting from somewhere inside a dream.
No rules. No normal beats.
Just weird sounds, strange worlds, and a psychedelic cartoon waiting to happen.