Pictish Trail

About the artist

LIFE SLIME - forthcoming sixth full-length Pictish Trail album, produced by Mike Lindsay (Tunng, LUMP). Pictish Trail’s 2022 album Island Family, his third for London’s Fire Records, drew acclaim from The Observer, The Times, Mojo, Uncut, Loud & Quiet, and BBC 6 Music. It was followed in Autumn 2024 by Follow Footsteps – an EP of reworked Island Family tracks released via his own Lost Map label, in conjunction with Fire. Pictish’s earlier albums Secret Soundz Vols. 1 & 2 (2008, 2013) were gloriously eclectic slices of lo-fi folk-pop, later reissued on deluxe double-vinyl by Moshi Moshi in 2014. His third album Future Echoes (2016) received widespread acclaim and was shortlisted for the Scottish Album of the Year (SAY Award), winning the public vote, before being reissued by Fire in 2018. A fourth album, Thumb World, followed in 2020, also via Fire. Pictish Trail has toured the world as both headliner and support for the likes of Belle and Sebastian, Pavement, Mogwai, Sea Power, & KT Tunstall. He’s performed at major festivals including Glastonbury, Field Day, Camp Bestival, Deer Shed, Celtic Connections, Blue Dot, Edinburgh Fringe, and every single edition of Green Man to date (all 22 and counting). Outside his own music, Johnny is a lynchpin of the UK’s independent music scene. Through Lost Map, he has championed a diverse and idiosyncratic roster, helping to platform artists such as Rozi Plain, Alabaster DePlume, Seamus Fogarty, Bas Jan, Callum Easter, and Free Love.