Tracklist:

1. Island Family (Summer Redux)
2. Follow Footsteps
3. Melody Something (Summer Redux)
4. Flowers Rising Into The Black
5. Nuclear Sunflower Swamp (Summer Redux)

Isle-of-Eigg dwelling electro-acoustic psych-pop wonder Pictish Trail, AKA Johnny Lynch, released his fifth album Island Family in 2022 to critical acclaim from all from The Observer and The Times to Mojo, Uncut, Loud & Quiet and BBC 6 Music. As he works on a much-anticipated follow-up, Johnny has decided to revisit the family of songs that made up Island Family once again, and present reduxes of three of them in brand new, stripped-back form, recorded together with a specially assembled trio of musicians: Semay Wu on cello, Gillian Fleetwood on harp, and long-time collaborator Susan Bear on keys/bass. The resulting EP, Follow Footsteps, will be released on limited-edition 12 vinyl in a gold-foil print sleeve, via Lost Map Records on September 13, 2024, as well as on digital platforms via Fire Records. Pictish Trail will be playing some of these reduxes live at tour dates throughout the summer and autumn, including at Green Man in August, in his 22nd consecutive appearance at the Welsh festival. By putting the wild, untamed euphoric-bucolic psychedelia of Island Family, Melody Something and Nuclear Sunflower Swamp through a softer filter complimented by a pair of short incidental instrumentals in Follow Footsteps and Flowers Rising Into The Black Pictish Trail has discovered delicately kaleidoscopic new resonance in the songs. He credits it with revitalising his whole approach to music making.