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Island Family

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)

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Release Year 2022 - 2 years ago
Condition Unless stated otherwise in the description above, all items are in at least excellent condition - so please read our descriptions carefully. We try to sell items as close to Mint condition as possible, and many will indeed be close to brand new and/or unplayed. Others may be 'used' - and all will meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed.
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Format vinyl LP album (LP record)
Record Label Fire Records
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Product Catalogue No FIRELP656
Music Genre Male Solo, Scottish Artists, NME Indie/Alternative Artists, 00s Artists, Indie
Country Comes from UK Comes from 'UK'
 
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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

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Recording Artist The Pictish Trail
Product Title Island Family
Product Information The Pictish Trail Island Family UK vinyl LP album (LP record).
Language All tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
Additional info Deleted - A deleted or out-of-print item is one that is no longer manufactured. However, we stock thousands of out-of-print formats and we specialise in tracking down out-of-print, deleted and hard-to-find releases.
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