Cosmonaut

Multi-instrumentalist, producer and composer, Lukas Mayo aka Pickle Darling, returns with the first offerings since their debut album, Bigness, was released in 2019 to applause from international indie tastemakers including Bandcamp’s Album of the Day and Goldflakepaint extolling it as “inspired little flashes of magic”. The simultaneous release of the 48 second ‘Rosary' and 'A Deep Breath’(2’59”) serves as the snapshot introduction to the new album, Cosmonaut, which finds them leaving not only the bedroom but… the atmosphere. While earlier releases spring onion pancakes EP and debut album Bigness pulled from the world of mumblecore films, Cosmonaut pulls from science fiction and space travel, as seen in the album’s artwork (a tribute to the art of classic science fiction books such a Dune and The Rings of Saturn), the song titles (‘Achieve Lift!’), and the live band’s outfits (the band wears boiler suits looking almost like a training space crew).