For their fourth Pickle Darling album, New Zealand indie pop songwriter and recording tinkerer Lukas Mayo took an even more deconstructive approach than usual to their process. Their extensive stash of digital files containing things like voice memos, drum loops, and sampled guitar notes that had been chopped up, stretched out, and reversed for the album even caused Mayo’s laptop to peter out and refuse to open files.
Working with what they could recover seemed fitting for Bots, because the songs were about conflict, collapse, and things breaking down in general. The resulting effect is not as heavy-handed as this may sound, as, rather than sounding overtly chopped and screwed, it arrives at something much closer to a whimsical…

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