Future Echoes, by Pictish Trail

Future Echoes

by Pictish Trail

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Nathan Chicken Because Jonny is lovely, and the music is lovely

The shining example A beautifully constructed album full of great songs and well crafted music .

I will be paying closer attention to Pictish Trail and to Lost Map Records in the future . Excellent and highly recommended ! Favorite track: Until Now.

Nathan Goode Lovely - an elegant swirl of poppiness gives PT's eclectic creative spark a satisfying depth. A complete work - but I particularly like Dead Connection, Easy With Either, Who's Comin' In?, After-Life.

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Limited edition ‘cosmic’ coloured double 12” LP, on Fire Records. The second LP contains reworkings, remixes and live recordings. 18 tracks. Limited to 1000 copies.

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Black vinyl of the original album, released on Lost Map, 10 tracks.

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1.	Far Gone (Don't Leave) 03:40
2.	Lionhead 04:40
3.	Dead Connection 03:12
4.	Rhombus 05:57
5.	Half-Life 04:17
6.	Easy With Either 03:31	buy track
7.	Who's Comin' In? 04:53
8.	Until Now 04:30
9.	Strange Sun 06:59
10.	After-Life 03:27
11.	After-Life (Winter Rewind Acid Reflux) 03:47
12.	Lionhead (Winter Rewind Acid Reflux) 05:21
13.	Dead Connection (Winter Rewind Acid Reflux) 04:32
14.	Until Now (White Poppy remix) 03:56
15.	Half Life - Live at Kelvingrove Bandstand, Glasgow 05:06
16.	Far Gone (Don't Leave) - Live at Kelvingrove Bandstand, Glasgow 03:31
17.	Strange Sun - Live at Kelvingrove Bandstand, Glasgow 07:05
18.	Brow Beaten - Live at BBC Radio Scotland 05:00

about

Something of a sonic hermit, Pictish Trail has spent large parts of the past few years tucked away in his caravan on the Hebridean isle of Eigg, feverishly working on the follow up to Secret Soundz Vol. 1 & 2, his critically- acclaimed double album of DIY electronic folk-tinged croft pop, released in 2014. Future Echoes is the mesmerising result. Written in remote seclusion but recorded in the bustling heart of London, it reunites Pictish Trail with Adem Ilhan, who produces the majority of the record. Johnny and Adem previously wrote music together in 2010 under the name Silver Columns, releasing the hugely well received album Yes And Dance via London taste-makers Moshi Moshi. Future Echoes features additional production and mixing from Rob Jones (Sweet Baboo, Slow Club) and drumming from Alex Thomas (Fridge, Squarepusher, Air, Bat For Lashes) and was mastered by Guy Davie at Electric Mastering.

A very personal musing on mortality, the death of friendships and the finality of things, Future Echoes represents the most confident, cohesive and pop-savvy collection of music Pictish Trail has written to date. The album’s opener and first single ‘Far Gone (Don’t Leave)’ takes its cues both musically and thematically from the Coen brothers’ Fargo, adding a tongue-in- cheek hip-hop beat, raspy Casio keyboard bassline and echo-slathered vocal over the top of an ominously queasy sample. ‘Dead Connection’ is a dizzying and very danceable dispatch of ghostly electro all about attempted discourse with the dead and accepting that what is gone is gone. ‘Half-Life’ slows things down at the album’s half way stage for a by-turns shuddering and twinkling take on decaying and yet somehow still interminable relationships, while closer ‘After-Life’ is a twisted polyrhythmic psychedelic disco opus, with a chorus sung in a Jimmy Somerville-worthy falsetto, reflecting on reincarnation and life lived on repeat. Which is exactly what you’ll be putting Future Echoes on by the time you get that far.

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released September 9, 2016

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