Pictish Trail - Life Slime

RELEASE DATE - RELEASE DATE : 10/04/2026

New album from Pictish Trail, AKA Johnny Lynch, known for his wildly inventive electro-acoustic psych-pop.

Produced by Mike Lindsay (Tunng, LUMP).

First airplay on BBC6 Music - Lauren Lavern, Cerys Matthews, Chris Hawkins, Gideon Coe, The Morning After Mix, on BBC Radio Scotland - Roddy Hart and Radio X John Kennedy.

Support from Uncut, MOJO, The Observer, Loud & Quiet, CLASH, Brooklyn Vegan.

Recent tours with Tunng, Belle & Sebastian, Pavement, Mogwai, Sea Power, KT Tunstall & Steve Mason and performed at major festivals including Glastonbury, Field Day, Deer Shed, Blue Dot and every single edition of Green Man Festival (22 and counting). 

Previous remixes & collaborations with Django Django, Superorganism, Hot Chip, Joe Goddard, Super Furry Animals and even comedian James Acaster .

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.

Track Listing:
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