coup de main - noun
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Definition of coup de main : an attack that achieves complete surprise.

Interview: Pickle Darling on their album 'Cosmonaut'.

"Sonically, I wanted the song to be a strange, lopsided introduction to the album," Pickle Darling says of 'Achieve Lift', the opener to their sophomore album, 'Cosmonaut', which was released last year.

The album follows up 2019's 'Bigness', and sees the Christchurch multi-instrumentalist's sound ascend to a new dimension both literally and metaphorically, with the nods to space seen in the visuals for the project, and songs like 'A Deep Breath' with the lyric, "Planet declares defeat / The missile ascends."

An online accompaniment to CDM #6 - The Communication Zine.

The theme of this month's DIY zine is 'communication' and we have contributions this month from guest curators: Albert Hammond Jr., The Blossom, Laundry Day, Rei Ami, and Wallows. 

Exclusively for this print zine, each guest curator has put together two pages relating to what communication means to them.

+ thank you to Wyatt Knowles for designing the cover of this month's zine!

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