PICTISH TRAIL 8211 Life Slime 8211 LP 8211 8217Toxic Lagoon8217 Blue Vinyl APR 10

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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 It2. Life Slime3. Toxic Spillage4. Battery Pack5. Another Way6. Sorry Eyes7. Infinity Ooze8. Crystal Cave9. Torch Song10. Werewolf Ending