PICTISH TRAIL – Life Slime – LP – ‘Toxic Lagoon’ Blue Vinyl [APR 10]

Description

LP – Limited Standard Edition ‘Toxic Lagoon’ Blue Vinyl.

Life Slime is the sixth full-length album by Pictish Trail (AKA Johnny Lynch) a strange, tender, psychedelic electro-pop record shaped by transformation, exhaustion, hope, guilt, and renewal. Written at home on the Isle of Eigg and recorded at Mike Lindsays studio down in Margate (Tunng / LUMP), the album follows 2022s critically acclaimed Island Family, further refining Lynchs world of lo-fi electronics, warped pop melodies, baggy psych rhythms and emotionally direct songwriting. Its a record that balances woozy synth-pop, motorik propulsion and intimate acoustic songwriting, all infused with the emotional messiness that gives the album its title.

Across the albums singles the guilt-stained psych-pop ballad Hold It, the life-affirming shimmer of Infinity Ooze, the late-night confession of Torch Song, the expansive eight-minute centrepiece Another Way, and the cinematic closer Werewolf Ending Life Slime charts a journey from emotional fracture to uneasy release. Sorry Eyes brings a punchy electro-pop strut with a sharp emotional edge, Crystal Cave drifts through crystalline guitars and shoegaze haze into transformation, and the title track Life Slime moves with a slow, weary swagger toward bittersweet acceptance. Together, these tracks form a cohesive album statement about surrender, resistance, change and renewal.

Press Quotes:
Endlessly inventive Uncut.
Wonderfully weird popBrooklyn Vegan.
A favourite artist of ours Lauren Laverne, BBC 6 Music.
Certifiably musically mad, and we love him for it. – Roddy Hart, BBC Radio Scotland.

Tracklist:

1. Hold It
2. Life Slime
3. Toxic Spillage
4. Battery Pack
5. Another Way
6. Sorry Eyes
7. Infinity Ooze
8. Crystal Cave
9. Torch Song
10. Werewolf Ending