From the moment Animation begins to rotate in the record player it becomes very clear that this is no ordinary pop album. It is little short of an off kilter pop roundabout. Spinning with all the quirky nature of Jeremy Warmsley and Of Montreal chopped up and stuck in a blender.

The fluctuating speeds of delivery are addictively disorientating, gloriously confuddling the listener into submission.

All the tracks are incredibly short with only three songs – Everything Fades, June On TV and album closer The Bluebird Song – that clock in at over two minutes in length, but almost all of these clipped numbers seem to float and bleed in and out of each other in the most flush of fashions. This serves the listener with sharp bursts of jazzy pop spiking in the ears and travelling in from all directions interspersed with gentler waves relaxation that allow the twenty-odd minutes to melt into as little or as long a time as your mood decides to take.

Tom Wilson, the brains behind it all, creates a world brimming with delightfully flawed characters through whom he tells his stories. It’s easy to imagine these songs, particularly Birth Of A Legend and Among The Rushes, soundtracking some classic freeze-frame children’s animation (as the album title may suggest) akin to Bagpuss or the Magic Roundabout: Something altogether strange, yet beautiful, warm and friendly.

Each time it plays there is something new and unexpected to be heard, be it the bizarre guitar solo in Pass Me By or the sudden start of Would Like To Meet, the schizophrenic piano of the prophetic Everything Fades or the ethereal qualities of Hey Mr.

Freeze Puppy’s Animation isn’t something likely to be heard on Radio 1 any time soon and that’s just as well as it will very possibly liquidise the minds of those that like music to be linear, clear and simple, resulting in brains dribbling out of mouths nationwide. However, for those that like a bit of oddness and unpredictability in life, Animation’s mix of sounds won’t be far off the mark.