Pictish Trail – Life Slime

Description

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.

Across the album’s 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.

Quotes:
“Endlessly inventive” Uncut.
“Wonderfully weird pop” Brooklyn 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.

Tour dates:
17 Jan: Celtic Connections, Glasgow, UK
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
04 May: The Prince Albert, Stroud, UK
06 May: Boileroom, Guildford, UK
07 May: The Barrel House, Totnes, UK
08 May: Alphabet, Brighton, UK
10 May: The Lexington, London, UK