Pictish Trail 'Life Slime'

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.

Tracklisting:
A1. Hold It
A2. Life Slime
A3. Toxic Spillage
A4. Battery Pack
A5. Another Way

B1. Sorry Eyes
B2. Infinity Ooze
B3. Crystal Cave
B4. Torch Song
B5. Werewolf Ending