An eight-minute journey of transformation and release building to a motorik krautrock inspired crescendo, ‘Another Way’ is the brand-new single by isle of Eigg-based Scottish psychedelic electronic-pop ogre Johnny Lynch, AKA Pictish Trail. Produced by Mike Lindsay (Tunng, LUMP), it’s on streaming platforms now via Fire Records. Together with previous singles ‘Infinity Ooze’, ‘Hold It’ and ‘Torch Song’, it’s taken from the forthcoming sixth full-length Pictish Trail album Life Slime, the follow-up to 2022’s acclaimed Island Family. A fan first / tour exclusive pre-release Primordial Blue-In-Pink Goo Edition is available on vinyl and CD via Fire Records and Lost Map Records (full album release date TBA). Pictish Trail is touring around the UK throughout the remainder of 2025, including support slots for folktronica legends Tunng, and a headline date at The Social in London on Wednesday, November 26. His first show of 2026 at the Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow on January 17 has just been announced.
About ‘Another Way’, Pictish Trail writes:
“This song sits right at the centre of the album for a reason – it’s the emotional hinge-point of Life Slime. It’s a song about trying to stay grounded when someone is determined to misunderstand you. When people disagree, it can so quickly turn into accusation, as if you’re deliberately causing harm. You start to feel like you’re being rewritten in someone else’s story, cast as the villain in a version of events you don’t even recognise. The line ‘What I see of myself just isn’t true’ is about that moment – when the reflection you’re being shown doesn’t match who you are, but you still feel the weight of it.
The song starts softly, building slowly, almost cautiously, and grows in confidence as it goes on – like finding the courage to speak up, or to stand by your own sense of self. By the end, it becomes something much freer and more expansive. The stone in the song doesn’t just break, it breaks out – crumbling, rolling, escaping. That’s the liberation at the heart of it: the moment you realise you don’t have to stay fixed in place, holding up someone else’s construction. You can move, change, and still keep your core.”
Fan First / Tour Exclusive pre-release copies of Life Slime – Primordial Blue-in-Pink Goo Edition on vinyl and CD available to pre-order now via Fire Records and Lost Map
LIVE DATES
13 Nov: The Engine Room, North Shields, UK
14 Nov: The Gregson, Lancaster, UK
15 Nov: Amped, Huddersfield, UK
16 Nov: The Castle, Manchester, UK
17 Nov: Bluebird, York, UK
18 Nov: Future Yard, Birkenhead, UK
19 Nov: Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford-upon-Avon, UK, w/ Tunng
20 Nov: Hare & Hounds, Birmingham, UK, w/ Tunng
21 Nov: The Jam Jar, Bristol, UK, w/ Blind Yeo
22 Nov: Islington Assembly Hall, London, UK, w/ Tunng
23 Nov: Cornish Bank Psych Fest, Falmouth, UK
24 Nov: Patch at Bobby’s, Bournemouth, UK
25 Nov: The Lighthouse, Deal, UK
26 Nov: The Social, London, UK
2026
17 Jan: Celtic Connections, Glasgow, UK
