The Christchurch musician who made a video game about making an album

The Christchurch musician who made a video game about making an album

Alex Casey talks to Ōtautahi musician Lukas Mayo, aka Pickle Darling, about channelling their album anxieties into a video game.  It’s not long into Pickle Darling: The Game that you are confronted by a curious shapeshifting figure, one cycling through various faces at warp speed and flanked by two ominous burning torches. “I am the New Zealand music industry,” the pixelated spectre announces. “Do you have any burning questions?” Pickle Darling,…