![]() “Invercargill Angel” is the other, a starry galaxy of synths to float about in. They don’t add heaps of unnecessary words though, instead opting to let the mood and the music carry on. “Head Terrarium” is one of two tracks where Mayo allows themself to really spread out. “No i’m not as pretty as I like / No I’m not as brilliant as I like,” brings their astral thinking back to Earth with some self-reflection. Two songs in one, the track splits from its perky banjo chords into a fingerpicked, autotuned coda where Mayo reflects on themself. ![]() “When I’m at work I serve and ponder the great expanse,” they detail, contrasting mundanity with universal abstrusity. Channelling The Boy Least Likely To, “Head Terrarium” finds them with their head in the clouds at their job. Over ticking guitar notes on “King of Joy” Mayo laments warmly “I wish you had a friendlier face / then I could take your complaints” while on the 70-second “Marcie” they observe “the engine of a plane / seagull caught between the blades” with a wry lilt in their voice to accentuate the black humour. On “Computer Repair” they describe getting caught going down a rabbit hole of internet content, leaving the listener on the small precipice at the end: “I clicked to see more / Nothing could prepare my eyes for what was in store.”ĭespite the brevity of the majority of the songs, there’s still time for wit and small-scale profundity. And they follow through: most of the album’s 12 tracks are under two minutes long, offering snippets of daily life, tiny stories that don’t need more explanation than given. “ I wanted it to be a lot more immediate,” Mayo says of the music here. ![]() Inspired by the short stories of Lydia Davis and William Morris’ book News From Nowhere, the New Zealand musician sought to make music that didn’t need to be extensively tinkered with and built upon. Mayo needed a reset of sorts in regards to their songwriting on Cosmonaut they spent months labouring over some songs, but on Laundromat they went with letting the briefest idea be enough. On their new album, Laundromat, time – or rather the lack of it – is central to its creation. On “Achieve Lift!” – the opening track to their 2021 album Cosmonaut – Lukas Mayo (aka Pickle Darling) sang “these things take their time.” It’s a line that rings out a little more poignantly two years later. ![]()
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