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Island Family

by Pictish Trail

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Island Family 04:27
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Natural Successor 05:25
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The River It Runs Inside Of Me 03:16
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In The Land Of The Dead 03:21
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It Came Back 04:05
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Thistle 02:57
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Melody Something 03:45
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Nuclear Sunflower Swamp 03:54
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Green Mountain 03:51
10.
Remote Control 04:01

about

Island Family is the fifth album from Isle-of-Eigg dwelling electro-acoustic psych-pop wonder Pictish Trail, AKA Johnny Lynch. A strange, unpredictable, sardonic and yet deeply personal record inspired by all from Fever Ray to The Flaming Lips, Liars, Mercury Rev and Beck, Island Family is Pictish Trail’s contrarian view of arcadia; a search for the euphoric in the bucolic, bound up in sometimes conflicting ideas and feelings around nature and environment, sincerity and artifice, escapism and belonging. It’s an album about how no man can remain an island, however hard he might try.

Released by Fire Records, with support from Johnny’s own label Lost Map, and produced by long-term collaborator Rob Jones (The Voluntary Butler Scheme, The Gene Dudley Group), ‘Island Family’ opens with its title track, a song of death, ghosts and the ties that bind, fusing abrasive electronic beats with a tongue-in-cheek fireside folk refrain and the haunted ice cream van melody of a digitally reincarnated traditional Scottish jig. A purgative surrender to nature’s whim driven by a clattering machine drumbeat rolled in a puddle of filthy dirty fuzz, ‘Natural Successor’ is five-and-a-half-minutes of cathartic churning bass.

‘In The Land of The Dead’ is an eight-bit glitch-core reflection on island party excesses spasming into existential dread and regret, suitably accompanied by a funereal mariachi band. It’s followed by the epic ‘It Came Back’, the understated verses and arms-aloft falsetto chorus of which are accompanied by a tense, foreboding bass-driven electro hip hop instrumental with (spoiler) a brain-shattering industrial-metal meltdown. ’Melody Something’ is the album’s purest moment, a cautiously uplifting solar-powered-ballad about losing track of time in the cycle of the seasons, and the gap between memory and reality. Shapeshifting closer ‘Remote Control’ is a channel hopping cabin-fever-dream flipping from warped boyband ballad to deep-fried fuzz pop.

Released on Fire Records on March 18th, 2022.

credits

released March 18, 2022

“THE PSYCHEDELIC SOUND OF THE INNER HEBRIDES…
ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!” – LAUREN LAVERNE, BBC6 MUSIC

“ISLAND FAMILY IS WILD, RANGY AND DRAMATIC, AS BEFITS ITS STAGGERING LANDSCAPES AND CHARACTERS THROUGH EIGG’S DARKER HISTORY”
– THE OBSERVER

★★★★ – THE TIMES
★★★★ – UNCUT
★★★★ – MOJO
★★★★ – LOUD & QUIET
★★★★ – THE SCOTSMAN

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Lost Map Records Isle Of Eigg, UK

DIY label, run by Pictish Trail, from his caravan on the Isle of Eigg, Scotland.

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