Pictish Trail’s new album ‘Life Slime’ is out now

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 Lindsay’s studio down in Margate (Tunng / LUMP), the album follows 2022’s critically acclaimed Island Family, further refining Lynch’s world of lo-fi electronics, warped pop melodies, baggy psych rhythms and emotionally direct songwriting. It’s 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.

Available On: Primordial Blue-in-Pink Goo Edition Vinyl, Toxic Blue Lagoon Edition vinyl with alternate cover artwork (Shop Exclusive) and CD.

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LIVE DATES
23 Apr: Tolbooth, Stirling, UK
24 Apr: Harbour Arts Centre, Irvine, UK
25 Apr: The Tunnels, Aberdeen, UK
26 Apr: The Cluny, Newcastle, UK
27 Apr: The Attic, Leeds, UK
28 Apr: La Belle Angle, Edinburgh, UK
01 May: The Pink Room, Yes, Manchester, UK
02 May: The John Peel Centre, Stowmarket, UK
03 May: Billy Bootleggers, Nottingham, UK
04 May: The Prince Albert, Stroud, UK
05 May: Ramsgate Music Hall, Ramsgate, UK
06 May: Boileroom, Guildford, UK
07 May: The Barrel House, Totnes, UK
08 May: Alphabet, Brighton, UK
09 May: The Legion Club, Wendover, UK
10 May: The Lexington, London, UK
04 Jul: The Rockfield Centre, Oban, UK
05 Jul: Kelburn Garden Party, Kelburn, UK
13 Aug: The Gregson, Lancaster, UK
21 Aug: Green Man Festival, Brecon Beacons, UK
29 Aug: Krankenhaus Festival, Barrow-In-Furness, UK

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Beautiful psych-pop

★★★★ MOJO

His mastery of pristine retro-futurist electro-pop songs with piercing heart-surging choruses is hard to resist

★★★★ Record Collector

The psychedelic sound of the Inner Hebrides... absolutely love it!

Lauren Laverne, BBC6 Music

Pictish Trail ‘Life Slime’

 

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More pensive with playful effects and a dusting of a dusting of psychedelia

★★★★ Uncut

You never know which song you’re gonna get with Pictish Trail, he takes you wherever he wants to take you, and I for one am along for the ride

Roddy Hart, BBC Radio Scotland

A pensive return, ‘Hold It’ moves from psych-pop whimsy to some barbed, self-lacerating lyrics, held together by Pictish Trail’s sense of purpose.

Clash

Oozes talent

★★★★ The Skinny

Great… much love to the Pictish Trail!

Vic Galloway, BBC Radio Scotland