{"product_id":"island-family","title":"Island Family","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIsland Family\u003c\/em\u003e is the fifth album from Isle-of-Eigg dwelling electro-acoustic psych-pop wonder \u003cstrong\u003ePictish Trail\u003c\/strong\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIsland Family\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReleased 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), ‘\u003cem\u003eIsland Family\u003c\/em\u003e’ 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA purgative surrender to nature’s whim driven by a clattering machine drumbeat rolled in a puddle of filthy dirty fuzz, ‘\u003cem\u003eNatural Successor\u003c\/em\u003e’ is five-and-a-half-minutes of cathartic churning bass.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘\u003cem\u003eIn The Land of The Dead\u003c\/em\u003e’ 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 ‘\u003cem\u003eIt Came Back\u003c\/em\u003e’, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘\u003cem\u003eMelody Something\u003c\/em\u003e’ 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 ‘\u003cem\u003eRemote Control\u003c\/em\u003e’ is a channel hopping cabin-fever-dream flipping from warped boyband ballad to deep-fried fuzz pop.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fire Records","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50481652990283,"sku":"1137020","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Green | LP","offer_id":50481654202699,"sku":"1137021","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50481653580107,"sku":"1137018","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/6123f04c-b078-4fa6-b962-dd5b71bb7c3e_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727542805","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/products\/island-family","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}