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Thumb World

by Pictish Trail

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    Deluxe Arcade Edition, PINK vinyl, Spot Gloss Gatefold sleeve + Sticker Sheet

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1.
Repeat Neverending 05:47
2.
Double Sided 03:42
3.
Pig Nice 04:27
4.
Lead Balloon 03:32
5.
Fear Anchor 05:18
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Slow Memories 03:49
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Bad Algebra 03:19
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Heart Eyes 03:09
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Turning Back 06:11
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Thumb World 06:19

about

Four years in the making, Thumb World is the much-anticipated follow-up to Pictish Trail’s critically acclaimed Scottish Album of the Year Award public vote winner Future Echoes.

Bold, weird, wild, wired, sonically luxurious yet never losing touch with its DIY-‘til-I-die roots, Thumb World is a voyage to the outer rings of Pictish Trail’s mind at its darkest, funniest and most inventive – a plugged-in, fuzzed-out, fucked-up contemplation on, as he puts it, “life repeating and gradually degrading, the inevitable cyclical nature of things, and the sense of their ultimately being no escape.”

Expect alien abductions, thumping beats, Trump-haired pigs, paternal panic, astronaut sex, bad acid trips, worse hangovers, lashings of distortion and a lot of anthropomorphic thumbs. “Our opposable thumbs are the things that separate us from most other animals on Earth,” Pictish explains, of the fat digit symbolism, “they are also the things that we use to swipe on screens, to separate ourselves from our normal lives, but which in turn trap us within an artificial reality.”

Produced and mixed by Rob Jones, featuring string arrangements from Kim Moore and drumming from Alex Thomas (Squarepusher, Anna Calvi, Air), Thumb World is Pictish Trail’s most collaborative album to date.

An audio-visual dialogue with Swatpaz, AKA Scottish artist Davey Ferguson – the man behind the Turbo Fantasy series and an entire episode of cult TV phenomenon Adventure Time – furnished Johnny with not just a graphic aesthetic for the album, but even helped him to shape the sound of the finished record. “I sent Davey a work-inprogress mix of the album,” Johnny says, “he came back with sketches in which he had reimagined Thumb World as an 80’s arcade game. Some of the songs are centered around specific visual images, inspired by Davey’s sketches.”

Released on Fire Records on February 21, 2020.

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released February 21, 2020

REVIEWS
"A TRIP TO DIY ALT-POP'S OUTER-LIMITS AND BACK”
★★★★ – RECORD COLLECTOR

“SOUND LIKE AN ’80s GAMES CONSOLE ON THE POINT OF EXPLODING”
8/10 – UNCUT

“A HUGE LEAP HEAVENWARDS FOR SCOTLAND'S LEFTFIELD POP HERO”
★★★★ – MOJO

"CREATIVE, LIFE-AFFIRMING, FUNNY AND BEAUTIFUL" ★★★★ – THE SKINNY

"LIMITLESS AMBITION... AN ECLECTIC AND WELL-FORMED COLLECTION”
★★★★ – THE LIST

“A REAL HERO OF THE SCOTTISH UNDERGROUND SCENE”
– HUW STEPHENS, BBC 6 MUSIC

“HIS NEW ALBUM... COULD BE HIS MOST DAZZLING, MOST EXCEPTIONAL YET”
– CLASH MUSIC

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Lost Map Records Isle Of Eigg, UK

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