Title: Life Slime
Artist: Pictish Trail
Label: Fire Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 809236004864
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2026-04-24
Number of Discs: 1

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 it’s 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.

Tracks:
1.1 Hold It
1.2 Life Slime
1.3 Toxic Spillage
1.4 Battery Pack
1.5 Another Way
1.6 Sorry Eyes
1.7 Infinity Ooze
1.8 Crystal Cave
1.9 Torch Song
1.10 Werewolf Ending