Pickle Darling announces new album Laundromat

Accompanied by a Martin Sagadin-directed video, "Head Terrarium" is the second release from Pickle Darling since they signed to Father/Daughter Records.

Of the video, Lukas Mayo (AKA Pickle Darling) says: "Martin and I often start with a really vague brief. I’m generally more interested in videos having a unique language than a literal narrative. We talked a lot about movies where the world kind of ‘breaks’ for a moment, like Persona or Donkey Skin or Synecdoche New York, where you kind of see ‘beyond’ the movie every now and then and it’s like “what is going on there?” Cause I think my songs do that sometimes, like a kind of ‘zooming out’. That was kind of the only brief I gave, and I also said 'just make something incredibly weird' and they did".

The director adds: "Just like the song shifts into a different register about halfway through, I wanted the video to also transform, to look beyond the boundaries of our world to reveal some sort of cosmic absurdity. When the UFO lands, the dimensions contained in the song cascade inwards and then outwards in a spooky lo-fi celebration of vulnerability".

Discussing how the expectation set after their first two albums – Bigness (2019) and Cosmonaut (2021) – reflected on the making of Laundromat, Mayo says: “I felt that I couldn't just follow my instincts anymore,” they say. “I wanted to return to how I made music right at the very start.”

As the album process transpired, they note that they “became really excited to make music for myself again––to just enjoy making music again".