Listening to “A Pufferfish About to Pop” by Booma Bitz is like taking a departure from expected musical constructions and aesthetics and allowing oneself to follow a more intuitive path where music and storytelling intermingle completely. The vivid images of the lyrics and the sounds that accompany each line are like the sound effects that perfectly fit that moment from sound design pieces to evolving melodies that don’t get stuck into a set theme or tempo. Yet it’s accessible and doesn’t immediately strike you as something trying to be experimental. It just is a unique piece that coaxes you into its particular creative universe with an appeal akin to a Dash Shaw or Miranda July film where just going along with the idiosyncratic aesthetic is part of how it works and how doing so is what makes the experience rewarding in the end. Musically one might compare it to late 90s UK electronic pop or some underground techno thing from the 2000s or soundtrack work for a truly left field indie movie but whatever resonances, the song stands on its own as a slice of life you want to lean into. It seems to be about someone giving into daydreams while hospital bed bound in that world where time seems to go on forever and every moment seems intense at the same time. Listen to “A Pufferfish About to Pop” on Spotify and follow Booma Bitz on Bandcamp.
Queen City Sounds and Art 
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