PICKLE DARLING Bots (shockwave swirl) (with comic) preorder
with exclusive companion-piece comic
Expected release 5th Sept
$54.95
Available on back-order
Bots is unruly and full of static: a collection of songs that feel like they could only ever exist on scratched CD-Rs passed between friends. Self-recorded in their home studio in Christchurch, New Zealand, it finds Lukas Mayo taking a scalpel to their own songwriting. Songs were stretched, chopped, reversed. Some ideas started as “unlistenable garbage” before morphing into something unexpectedly beautiful. If a song felt too straightforward, Mayo had to mess it up. That friction of old and new, organic and digital, melody and noise is what drives Bots.
1. Obsolete
2. Violence Voyager
3. Earthshaped
4. Congratulations Champion
5. Human Bean Instruction Manual
6. Steps
7. Massive Everything
8. Infinite Trolley