LIFE SLIME (TOXIC LAGOON BLUE VINYL)

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.

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'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.

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