A micro-indie record label based in Fife, Scotland: The Fence Collective, King Creosote, The Pictish Trail, FOUND, James Yorkston, OnTheFly, Rozi Plain, François & the Atlas Mountains, Player Piano, Gummi Bako, Lone Pigeon, Pip Dylan, H.M.S. Ginafore, OLO Worms and more . . .
Johnny Lynch’s first scatchy-batch of recordings as The Pictish Trail, recorded over a summer in 2002, and released on CD-R in 2003. Features the original version of ‘Going Down To The Water’, as mauled by The Three Craws.
“One microphone, one guitar and one old shitty keyboard. The recording quality isn’t exactly squeaky-clean (although it is squeaky) – but the songs are all there. The pops, whistles, purrs and airy noises kinda add to the whole feel of the album, I think…” PT, March 2003
The Pictish Trail
THE PICTISH TRAIL is the nom de plume of singer-songwriter Johnny Lynch, who – alongside Kenny Anderson (aka King Creosote) – runs micro-indie DIY-folk collective Fence Records, from a remote fishing village in Fife, Scotland. His music is a sonorous mixture of acoustic-driven balladry and lo-fi synthesised pop, that has been described as “a post-summer [...]
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