Pickle Darling – Laundromat (Vinyl)

As Pickle Darling, Christchurch, New Zealand-based producer and multi-instrumentalist Lukas Mayo (they/them) zooms in on the universality of existential thought with earnest playfulness. After years of touring on previous albums, Bigness (2019) and Cosmonaut (2021) and supporting artists like Lucy Dacus and The Beths, Pickle Darling’s third album, Laundromat, marks their debut with Father/Daughter Records.

Laundromat finds magic in the mundane, pointing past perfectionism and instead leans into the art of the everyday. Art is everywhere: in the shape we make out of a napkin while waiting for our coffee to arrive, in the text we send to a friend in need, in the beat we make on the steering wheel while stuck at a red light.

Mayo highlights folk artists Connie Converse, Bill Fay and Vashti Bunyan as passengers in the process of Laundromat; artists who put music into the world then disappeared from the public eye. I wanted to capture the feeling of making music that’s out of step with everything around it, they explain. I wanted it to be a lot more immediate. Mayo recorded a lot of Laundromats ideas onto their phone, giving themselves permission to allow those ideas to be the entire song.

TRACKLIST

1. Early Geometry
2. In Good Health
3. King Of Joy
4. Head Terrarium
5. Choruses
6. Computer Repair
7. Laundromat
8. Marcie
9. Kinds Of Love
10. Invercargill Angel
11. Scared
12. More Kinds Of Love