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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.
For fans of Hot Chip, The Flaming Lips, Liars, Mercury Rev, Beck, John Grant, Empire of the Sun, Grandaddy.
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.
Beautiful psych-pop songs MOJO
More heart-surging oddness hard to resist Record Collector
His mastery of pristine retro-futurist electro-pop songs with piercing heart-surging choruses is hard to resist Record Collector
More pensive with playful effects and a dusting of a dusting of psychedelia Uncut
You never know which song youre 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 favourite artist of ours () this is beautiful Lauren Laverne, BBC 6 Music
Great much love to the Pictish Trail! Vic Galloway, BBC Radio Scotland
A pensive return, Hold It moves from psych-pop whimsy to some barbed, self-lacerating lyrics, held together by Pictish Trails sense of purpose. Clash
Mesmerising Joyzine
Life Slime might be his most open and unguarded record yet. Flux Magazine
Theres a 1980s slink to this one, the chunky synths and that hooky bassline evoking a cold kind of romanticism. The List (on Sorry Eyes)
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