The Pictish Trail Island Family UK Vinyl LP
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THE PICTISH TRAIL Island Family (2022 UK/EU limited edition
11-track vinyl LP - Strange, unpredictable, sardonic and yet
deeply personal record, Johnny Lynch's fifth studio album is an
album about how no man can remain an island, however hard he
might try; including the single 'Remote Control'. The vinyl looks
barely played issued in the picture sleeve with the lyric printed
inner)
TRACKLISTING AND EXTRA INFORMATION
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.
Side 1:
A1. Island Family
A2. Natural Successor
A3. The River It Runs Inside Of Me
A4. In The Land Of The dead
A5. It Came Back
Side 2:
B1. Thistle
B2. Melody Something
B3. Nuclear Sunflower Swamp
B4. Green Mountain
B5. Remote Control
Artist - The Pictish Trail (click link for complete listing)
Title - Island Family (click link for more of the same title)
Year of Release - 2022
Format - vinyl LP album (LP record)
Record Label - Fire Records
Catalogue No - FIRELP656 (click link for more)
Country of Origin - United Kingdom (UK)
Language - Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
Additional info - Deleted, Picture Sleeve
Barcode - 809236165619
Condition - This item is in Excellent condition or better (unless it says otherwise in the above description). We buy items as close to Mint condition as possible and many will be unplayed and as close to new as you could hope to find. Irrespective of the source, all of our collectables meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed. Click here for more info.
RareVinyl.com Ref No - YIGLPIS809992
Alternative Names - Pictish Trail.
GENRES
00s Artists, Indie, NME Indie/Alternative Artists, Male Solo, Scottish Artists.
REFERENCE
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RareVinyl.com Reference Number - YIGLPIS809992
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TRACKLISTING AND EXTRA INFORMATION
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.
Side 1:
A1. Island Family
A2. Natural Successor
A3. The River It Runs Inside Of Me
A4. In The Land Of The dead
A5. It Came Back
Side 2:
B1. Thistle
B2. Melody Something
B3. Nuclear Sunflower Swamp
B4. Green Mountain
B5. Remote Control
Artist - The Pictish Trail (click link for complete listing)
Title - Island Family (click link for more of the same title)
Year of Release - 2022
Format - vinyl LP album (LP record)
Record Label - Fire Records
Catalogue No - FIRELP656 (click link for more)
Country of Origin - United Kingdom (UK)
Language - Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
Additional info - Deleted, Picture Sleeve
Barcode - 809236165619
Condition - This item is in Excellent condition or better (unless it says otherwise in the above description). We buy items as close to Mint condition as possible and many will be unplayed and as close to new as you could hope to find. Irrespective of the source, all of our collectables meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed. Click here for more info.
RareVinyl.com Ref No - YIGLPIS809992
Alternative Names - Pictish Trail.
GENRES
00s Artists, Indie, NME Indie/Alternative Artists, Male Solo, Scottish Artists.
REFERENCE
Email - sales@rarevinyl.com to contact our sales team.
RareVinyl.com Reference Number - YIGLPIS809992
SELL TO US
Got vinyl records, CDs or music memorabilia to sell? – Sell to us at our buying site https://vinyl-wanted.com