To wrap your head around Bots, start at either end. Opening track ‘Obsolete’ is a staticky, artful scene-setter. Samples, synthesisers, and squeaks from fingers sliding on guitar strings evolve into a welcoming ballad. It’s immediately clear why Pickle Darling (Lukas Mayo) described the album as being “assembled from fragments”. The magic is in turning bits and […]
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Album review: Bots, by Pickle Darling
The sound of someone alone in their bedroom, surrounded by ideas and deep feelings, reassembling them into beautiful and thoughtful things.
