Pictish Trail – Life Slime: Toxic Lagoon Blue Colored Vinyl LP (Preorder)

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 it’s 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.

Tracklist:

1. Hold It
2. Life Slime
3. Toxic Spillage
4. Battery Pack
5. Another Way
6. Sorry Eyes
7. Infinity Ooze
8. Crystal Cave
9. Torch Song
10. Werewolf Ending

UPC > 809236005359

Format > New Vinyl

Label > Fire Records

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