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Pickle Darling Aimee Mann cover

Pickle Darling shares a cover of Aimee Mann's "Deathly"

07 December 2023, 11:03 | Written by Tyler Damara Kelly

Pickle Darling, the musical guise of Lukas Mayo from Christchurch, NZ, has unveiled a rendition of Aimee Mann's "Deathly.”

"Honestly I am quite new to Aimee Mann's albums, she's one of those artists that's been recommended to me for years. I went through a short phase of listening to anything that had Jon Brion on the credits and then found this album for like $5 at work, threw it on the CD player, and became obsessed with it. Doing covers is often my way of exploring how a certain songwriter operates, and a way to start diving into someone's discography," Mayo says.

"I never really do covers of artists I'm too familiar with, because their music is already kind of in my DNA. But when I'm a new convert of an artist, I get excited about the new set of songwriting tricks available to me. I still feel like a songwriting student and the best way to learn is by covering a song and rearranging it, seeing what you can strip away and what is essential to the composition. There were a bunch of songs on this album I was choosing between, it was a close one between this and "How Am I Different", but I just loved how immediately warm the melody was for this one. I've been trying to write songs like this for years."

"Deathly," a song from Aimee Mann's underdog album, Bachelor No. 2, or the Last Remains of the Dodo, is also the centrepiece of the 1999 film Magnolia by Paul Thomas Anderson. Anderson allegedly even rewrote an entire scene in the psych-drama to fit the song in seamlessly.

Pickle Darling's cover of Aimee Mann's "Deathly" is out now via Father/Daughter Records.

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