Pickle Darling: Laundromat (digital outlets)

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Pickle Darling: Laundromat (digital outlets)

The lexicon has a new sub-category: “cardigan pop”. That's how the quirky music of Pickle Darling (Christchurch multi-instrumentalist Lukas Mayo, they/them) has been described.

Check their 2016 glockenspiel version of Lennon's Tomorrow Never Knows.

Although they say Pickle Darling means nothing you'd hope for some vinegar astringency.

But the 12 songs on this third album in six years – call them miniatures or undeveloped, only two break the two minute mark – are slight, sweet and musically simple lo-fi bedroom pop, usually about the commonplace.

“I don’t say a single profound thing. Sorry,” they say on the 90 second Kinds of Love.

That's their appeal however, one fan said of Mayo's hand-drawn video for the album's title track it had “this awesome school project/crafts vibe”.

“Cute” can be a compliment (nice, pleasant, sweet, child-like) but also condemnation (vacuous, twee, saccharine, infantile).

Laundromat is  . . . cute.

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You can hear and buy this album at bandcamp here

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