Life Slime

A shimmering hymn to life’s strange alchemy with a baggy nineties pulse and waves of reverb-drenched harmony, ‘Infinity Ooze’ 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.

Both ‘Infinity Ooze’ and previous single ‘Hold It’ are 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 to order now on vinyl and CD via Fire Records and Lost Map (full album release date TBA). Pictish Trail is touring around the UK throughout the remainder of 2025, including intimate solo shows in small rooms around lesser-visited corners of rural Scotland, plus support slots for folktronica legends Tunng, and a headline date at The Social in London on Wednesday, November 26. Tickets for all gigs are on sale now.

About ‘Infinity Ooze’, Pictish Trail writes:

“I was trying to write about hope. Life has felt messy and difficult over the past few years, and I’d found myself writing songs about how slimy and complicated things can get — and the residue it leaves behind. This song flips that idea, turning the slime into something life-giving: a love song to the serum that binds us, a meditation on the strange, transformative energy that keeps reforming and expanding out into cosmic infinity.”

Pictish Trail’s 2022 album Island Family, his third for London’s Fire Records, drew acclaim from The Observer, The Times, Mojo, Uncut, Loud & Quiet, and BBC 6 Music. It was followed in Autumn 2024 by Follow Footsteps – an EP of reworked Island Family tracks released via his own Lost Map Records label, in conjunction with Fire. Pictish’s earlier albums Secret Soundz Vols. 1 & 2 (2008, 2013) were gloriously eclectic slices of lo-fi folk-pop, later reissued on deluxe double-vinyl by Moshi Moshi in 2014. His third album Future Echoes (2016) received widespread acclaim and was shortlisted for the Scottish Album of the Year (SAY Award), winning the public vote, before being reissued by Fire in 2018. A fourth album, Thumb World, followed in 2020, also via Fire.

Pictish Trail has toured the world as both headliner and support for the likes of Belle & Sebastian, Pavement, Mogwai, Sea Power, and KT Tunstall. He’s performed at major festivals including Glastonbury (Park Stage), Field Day, Camp Bestival, Deer Shed, Celtic Connections, Blue Dot, the Edinburgh Fringe, and every single edition of Green Man Festival to date (all 22 and counting). Outside his own music, Johnny is a lynchpin of the UK’s independent music scene. Through Lost Map, he has championed a diverse and idiosyncratic roster, helping to platform artists such as Rozi Plain, Alabaster dePlume, Seamus Fogarty, Bas Jan, Callum Easter, and Free Love.