{"id":1968496,"date":"2025-08-19T12:38:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T12:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1968496"},"modified":"2025-08-19T12:38:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T12:38:30","slug":"pickle-darling-releases-new-single-congratulations-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/pickle-darling-releases-new-single-congratulations-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Pickle Darling Releases New Single &#8216;Congratulations Champion&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Pickle Darling has released a new single, \u201cCongratulations Champion\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The song is built from a collection of one-liners Lukas Mayo, the artist behind Pickle Darling, had saved on their phone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis one collects a bunch of stand alone lines I\u2019ve had on my phone. Some songs function purely as a timestamp for me, it has so many things in it that point to a specific moment in 2022. I was listening to a lot of R.E.M., at the time, I love melodies that kind of just \u2018slot\u2019 into place,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"op-interactive\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pickle Darling - Congratulations Champion (Official Audio)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HCVf0HablZs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations Champion\u201d is the latest track from Pickle Darling\u2019s upcoming album,\u00a0<em>Bots<\/em>. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/pickle-darling-battlebots-album-announce-80883\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Previously named\u00a0<em>Battlebots<\/em><\/a>, it has been described as their most intricate and lovingly chaotic work to date.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"997\" data-end=\"1189\">It joins earlier singles \u201cViolence Voyager\u201d, \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/pickle-darling-shares-new-single-human-bean-instruction-manual-79335\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Human Bean Instruction Manual<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/pickle-darling-massive-everything-single-77809\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Massive Everything<\/a>\u201d as a glimpse into the album\u2019s<em>\u00a0<\/em>experimental, emotionally tangled world.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"997\" data-end=\"1189\">In <em>Bots<\/em>, called their most fractured and sonically unruly album to date, Mayo pushed their computer to its limits. Songs were layered until files became inoperable, and in some cases, abandoned entirely. It\u2019s a fitting collapse for a record about emotional static, creative friction, and the strange beauty found in ruin.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"997\" data-end=\"1189\">Pickle Darling debuted in 2019 with\u00a0<em>Bigness<\/em>, followed by\u00a0<em>Cosmonaut<\/em> in 2021. Mayo has curated a catalog that is deeply personal, featuring unexpected details that have become crucial to their sound. Their 2023\u00a0LP <em>Laundromat<\/em> was a precise and polished expansion of that world, a record that felt like it had been carefully placed behind glass.<\/p>\n<div class=\"observer-sub-form justify-content-center my-3 p-0 d-flex align-items-stretch bg-dark text-white\">\n<div class=\"observer-sub-form-info p-3\" style=\"justify-content: start;\">\n<h2 class=\"h5 mb-0 observer-title\">Love Music?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"observer-desc mb-2\"> Get your daily dose of everything happening in Australian\/New Zealand music and globally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"spinner d-none\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-start=\"1503\" data-end=\"1820\">To mark <em>Bots<\/em>\u2018 release, Pickle Darling will play a short run of intimate in-store shows across Aotearoa, performing solo with just a guitar.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1503\" data-end=\"1820\">The new music follows the launch of <em data-start=\"1544\" data-end=\"1570\">Pickle Darling: The Game<\/em>, a\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/pickle-darling-video-game-launch-76449\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">retro-inspired video game<\/a>\u00a0created with Shortal. In it, players explore a DIY pixel-art world in search of a lost album, soundtracked by 8-bit versions of Pickle Darling songs like \u201cBicycle Weather\u201d, \u201cKing of Joy\u201d, and \u201cInvercargill Angel\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><em>Pickle Darling\u2019s \u201cCongratulations Champion\u201d is out now.\u00a0Bots is out on September 5 (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pickledarling.lnk.to\/bots\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pre-order here<\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Pickle Darling Shows<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Friday, September 5th<\/strong><br \/>Slowboat Records, Wellington \u2013 4.30pm<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Saturday, September 6th<\/strong><br \/>Flying Out, Auckland \u2013 2.00pm<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Thursday, September 11th<\/strong><br \/>Penny Lane Records, Christchurch<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');fbq('init','243859349395737');fbq('track','PageView');fbq.disablePushState=true;<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source au.rollingstone.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pickle Darling has released a new single, \u201cCongratulations Champion\u201d. The song is built from a collection of one-liners Lukas Mayo, the artist behind Pickle Darling, had saved on their phone. \u201cThis one collects a bunch of stand alone lines I\u2019ve had on my phone. 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