Pickle Darling returns with new single "Massive Everything" on Father/Daughter Records
New single from the New Zealand-based artist
Pickle Darling
Shares new single "Massive Everything"
on Father/Daughter Records
There’s always been something ineffably tender about Pickle Darling’s music - an off-kilter ache, a half-buried memory, a melody that insists on being felt before it can be understood. With “Massive Everything,” their first original music since a gorgeously unguarded Postal Service cover alongside The Beths in 2023, the Christchurch-based songwriter takes a step into full-blown pop maximalism — or at least their version of it.
Speaking on the track, Pickle Darling describes it as "maybe the first kind of ‘pop’ song I’ve ever made. And I think the most lyrically direct too, there’s no poetry or cleverness to it, I felt strongly about clear communication this time. I love Robyn, Ray of Light-era Madonna, Cher, Donna Lewis, I love those kinds of ‘empathetic’ pop songs that feel like a hug from a friend." And it shows. “Massive Everything” pulses with a bright, synthetic heart through lush synth beds and flickers of drum machine melancholy. But embedded in its shimmering scaffolding is a lyrical density that buries something heavier. “There’s an infinite amount of horrors we all kind of have to carry with us that no one else can see,” Lukas explains. “Everyone has their own invisible pains that are unexplainable, and this is a love song that tries to include as much of that as possible.”
It’s a kind of radical intimacy: a love song not in spite of those interior shadows, but because of them. “Massive Everything” marks the beginning of a new chapter for Pickle Darling, one that reaches toward bigness without losing the cracked, glinting beauty of their past work.
Pickle Darling - Massive Everything
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJnmc03yED8
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"Massive Everything" follows on from the recent release of Pickle Darling: The Game. Made with visual artist Christiane Shortal, the online videogame takes you on a Pickle Darling album release quest. 95bFM said, "Witty, nostalgic, and refreshingly fun. Designed for game-illiterates and enthusiasts alike, try Pickle Darling: The Game yourself and experience the trials and tribulations of the creative journey behind an indie album release." Play the game here.
Previous praise for Pickle Darling...
"A clutch of tiny gems - many tracks hardly longer than a minute - but leaving you reeling..." - MOJO
“Pickle Darling’s music captures and inspires an intricate sense of wonder… with each new release Pickle Darling expands their charming sonic cosmos filled with vibrant, intimate bedroom-pop vignettes.” - Crack Magazine
“Pickle Darling explores mundane magic in the effervescent Laundromat.” - Still Listening
“Their third album is eccentric, fuzzy and really rather sweet… like The Shins doing Daniel Johnston songs.” - Hit The North
