10 Apr 2019

VIDEO PREMIERE: Pickle Darling ‘Even Pinker’

From RNZ Music, 12:00 am on 10 April 2019

RNZ Music is proud to present the new video from Christchurch multi-intrumentalist/bedroom pop producer Pickle Darling, for his song ‘Even Pinker’.

‘Even Pinker’ is from Pickle Darling's debut album Bigness, which came out in January.

The man behind the name, Lukas Mayo has been making music as Pickle Darling since 2016, releasing his first EP Spring Onion Pancakes in 2017.

RELATED: Pickle Darling's Lukas Mayo on his debut album Bigness

At the time, he described the genesis of his sound to RNZ Music’s Tony Stamp: “I was in a store one day and there were two boomboxes [playing two different things].

“One was playing S Club 7 – someone probably threw it on for a laugh – and the other was playing 'Karma Police’.

“I just thought I was listening to some glorious out-of-time mashup of Radiohead and S Club 7, then I realised that was what I wanted my music to sound like.”

Pickle Darling’s new video ‘Even Pinker’ was created by Wellington director and animator Simone Dobbie and Christchurch producer/editor Martin Sagadin.

RELATED: Music through a Christchurch lens

Simone does hand-drawn animation using a lightbox and a window to do tracing and make slight changes to each drawing.

“The animations [for ‘Even Pinker’] were based off still life drawings of things around my flat and off my walks around Wellington.

“This then moved and changed into figures of people, birds, drains and my struggles with personal relationships and with anything."

Related:
  • Pickle Darling's Lukas Mayo on his debut album Bigness
  • Music through a Christchurch lens
  • Introducing- Pickle Darling
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