If you see a package wrapped and tied
the secret is inside
I saw image of my youth quiet moment of memories
Relax away the nonsense I have set in front of me
Pocket lollipops operates as if an album were a living entity, a puzzle to solve. Their latest record, Number 2990 (Part 1), presents itself as a gradual flow of ideas spread over months, blending time, routine, and anticipation. Created during the hot summer of 2025 and mastered by Kramer, it exudes a unique authority—carefully preserved yet still wild, unrestrained, and slightly amused with itself. This embodies Miami’s experimental noise rock and punk, reminiscent of an art exhibit that intentionally avoids explaining itself.
Maitejosune Urrechaga and Tony Kapel position sound as one component among language, gesture, visual texture, and patience. The six-month rollout – one track per month, looping back on itself – functions like a game board with missing instructions. In this perpetual game of strategy, meaning slides sideways as sensation takes over and the record listens back.
Throughout Number 2990 (Part 1), Pocket of Lollipops blurs music, performance, and visual thinking until the distinctions feel unnecessary. Album covers, live gestures, and aesthetic choices are not accessories; they are extensions of the same idea. This is a record that behaves like a question asked repeatedly, with slight variations each time.
Slingshot sets the tone through accumulation. Spoken word floats over uneasy synth shapes, repetition acting as propulsion rather than hook. The track leans into a curious lineage that brushes against Sonic Youth’s permissive noise logic and Delia Derbyshire’s sense of texture as thought. Community, drawing, archives, small acts of making – these images stack up quietly. Release comes as a sense that enough has been gathered to move. The Cloak’s Whisper tightens the focus. Bass leads with intent, minimalist post-punk drumming keeping things stripped and deliberate. The vocal delivery sits close to sprechstimme, flat and forceful in its calm, recalling Delta 5’s chant-like directness. The song circles boundaries, intrusion, and self-possession. The repetition of “you exist” lands like a private spell, understated yet firm.
Time Traveler opens outward. A forlorn guitar introduces a hazy interplay of male and female voices, echoing and slightly askew. There’s a looseness that nods toward Yacht’s off-kilter pop instincts, where forward motion feels communal. Images of breaking, watching, and loving strangers appear as fragments. Time stretches, bends, keeps moving.
Plaid Shoes brings childhood imagery into collision with something heavier. Atonal chanting rides atop tribal percussion, playful and ominous in equal measure. The lineage splinters here: Talking Heads’ nervous art-funk energy brushes up against Blondie’s streetwise cool, filtered through Sonic Youth’s tolerance for abrasion. Something dies, something grows teeth. The body reacts before the mind catches up.
Sock Song retreats into domestic detail: couches, coffee tables, socks worn to bed. The chant returns, sing-song and unsettled, again touching on Delta 5’s rhythmic insistence. Ominous guitar hums beneath affirmations repeated until they start to feel necessary. Crickets mark time passing as wisdom arrives sideways.
Be Your Own Detective closes Number 2990 Part 1 by refusing closure. It opens with the false cheer of an advertisement before dropping into a no wave scrape that evokes Lydia Lunch’s confrontational minimalism and Bikini Kill’s blunt urgency. Games, toys, rules, cheating – all the language of play repurposed to interrogate trust and care. The mystery remains unresolved by design.
Listen to Part One of Number 2990 below and order the album here.
Number 2990 (part 1) by Pocket Of Lollipops
Number 2990 Part 2 looms in 2026, its form undecided, its method unknown. That uncertainty feels essential. Pocket of Lollipops just want to keep rolling those dice again and again.
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