Pickle Darling - Massive Everything

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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.

“This is the first true pop song I feel like I’ve written,” Pickle Darling says. “I love euphoric pop music. I love Pet Shop Boys, Madonna and Robyn. This is kind of my attempt at that.” 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.