Pictish Trail – Life Slime

Description

Pictish Trail's 'Life Slime' is a captivating indie album that explores themes of existence and emotion through a unique soundscape. Released by Fire Records, this collection showcases the artist's distinctive style and creativity.

Highlights

Genre: Indie
Release Date: April 24, 2026
Label: Fire Records
Format: CD

Track Listing

01. Hold It

02. Life Slime

03. Toxic Spillage

04. Battery Pack

05. Another Way

01. Sorry Eyes

02. Infinity Ooze

03. Crystal Cave

04. Torch Song

05. Werewolf Ending

Format Details

Label: Fire Records
Genre: Indie
Release Date: 2026-04-24
Format: CD

Item Information

Artist: Pictish Trail
Title: Life Slime
Genre: Indie & Alternative
Label: Fire Records

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.

Format: CD
Availability : PRE ORDER
Genre: ALT/INDIE
Format Type: CD
Released: 2026-04-24