New Zealand indie-pop artist Pickle Darling releases new single "Laundromat"
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New Zealand indie-pop artist Lukas Mayo b.k.a. Pickle Darling unveiled the title track to their forthcoming album Laundromat yesterday.
An accompanying lyric video for the track, which can be seen below, was animated by Mayo and their partner Christiane Shortal.
Mayo said this about the single:
"I had the album title before I wrote this song, strangely! One of the initial ideas of the album was to write like, “mundane hymns” and this was one of the first I wrote with that in mind. I was going to write everyday kinds of songs about the world from the perspective of various objects, and this one was from a washing machine’s perspective. It’s a pretty terrible concept that I’ll probably revisit one day when I’m out of ideas."
Laundromat, which follows Pickle Darling’s 2021 studio album Cosmonaut, arrives this Friday via Father/Daughter Records. Pre-orders for the album can be made here.
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