WAYPOINTS #226
21/02/25
"THERE WILL BE CHAOS LIKE
NONE OF US HAVE EVER SEEN"
FEATURING: FAITH ELIOTT, FIRESTATIONS, PAINTING, CURTIS MILES, SEAMUS FOGARTY, ALEXIA AVINA, PICTISH TRAIL + MORE
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FAITH ELIOTT'S NEW ALBUM DRYAS COMING SOON – STREAM AND SHARE 'SNOWGLOBE'
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"You gotta have faith!" as Limp Bizkit once famously sang. Although they also once sang "dum ditty dum, where's it coming from?" and "bring on the dumpster funk!", so nobody ought to listen to them and their sh*te. The point being: faith, you gotta have it. And now Lost Map has got it, in the form of the fantastic, and to be clear not at all Limp Bizkit sounding, Faith Eliott. Welcome, Faith Eliott!
A haunting, atmopsheric, post-apocalyptic ballad that is the exact polar opposite of "dumpster funk", ‘snowglobe’ is the Lost Map debut single by Faith, who was born in Minneapolis and is now based in Scotland. Out now as part of Lost Map's PostMap Club subscription service in February as well as via streaming platforms, it's the first taste of the spellbinding music to be discovered on their forthcoming new album Dryas, a lush and mysterious trove of sound and poetry touching on everything and anything from hagfish to Pleistocene volcanoes, cursed memes and late-Renaissance apocryphal monsters lurking in the aisles of ASDA, all the usual normal stuff. It’s set for release on May 30, 2025, on limited-edition 12” pastel pink coloured vinyl, CD and via digital services and it demands to be revisited again and again. It's available to pre-order now.
About ‘snowglobe’ Faith writes:
“A song about fear of the big, destructive things that could occur and grief for the big, destructive things already occurring. There’s a nod there in the lyrics to TS Eliot’s ‘The Hollow Men’ with ‘death’s other kingdom’. The single cover art is based on an old illustration of the Wormwood Star, which is an apocalypse star in the Book of Revelation. Biblically accurate angel energy!”
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COMING SOON: FIRESTATIONS' NEW ALBUM MANY WHITE HORSES – STREAM AND SHARE 'A WEIGHT STARTS TO LIFT'
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In the previous edition of WayPoints, we teased some factually imprecise information about Firestations' forthcoming new album which lead singer/songwriter Mike took exception to, and has demanded that we retract under threat of legal action. So let us state for the record: Michael Cranny did not eat his bandmates while they were stranded on a deserted island. Sorry about that, Mike. The truth of it is that Mike merely buried his bandmates up to their necks, and left them there. They're still on the island now to the best of our knowledge, living off rainwater and crabs which they have become expert at catching with their teeth. Someone should probably check on them?
Whatever his bandmates' fate may be, this much is clear: Mike's gone it alone, for a bit, and made a solo album under the Firestations name. It's called Many White Horses, and contrary to the savage ruthlessness of events described above, it's really lovely and chilled out. Set for release on limited-edition 12” vinyl, CD and via digital services on April 25, 2025 and available to pre-order now, it's a collection of sea-soaked acoustic songs and instrumentals, interwoven with field recordings and lyrics drawn from the immediate surroundings of a sailing expedition around the west of Scotland, all brought together with warm, textured production. Firestations’ fourth full-length record was self-produced by Mike, who played a variety of instruments on it including a haunted piano. It’s enriched too by contributions from bandmate Laura Copsey, on flugelhorn, flute and vocals. Contributions made, we can only assume, before the spade came out.
About first single 'A Weight Starts To Lift', Mike says:
“I’ve been messing about with open-tuned fingerpicking for years, ever since I got into Nick Drake as a teenager, but I’ve hardly ever made it work for a song as I get too obsessed with getting the picking right and quickly lose focus. This time, somehow, I made it past my own gatekeeper and in the end wrote this song really quickly. It’s about the joy of having an adventure and not wanting it to end.”
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THE FEBRUARY LOST MAP PODCAST
1) In which a man who is positively sick of bread is made to talk about b***d, it's the new Lost Map Podcast.
2) Feat. hot sounds fresh out of the oven from Painting, Alexia Avina, Firestations, Faith Eliott + a chat w/ rock'n'roll baker Curtis Miles.
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SEAMUS FOGARTY GDYM REISSUE
1) Ever found yourself unreasonably furious at a big spiky elevated portion of the Earth's crust?
2) Seamus Fogarty's God Damn You Mountain is the album for you.
3) Special "T-shirt yellow" vinyl reissue of Seamo's stunning 2012 debut LP available to pre-order now.
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FEBRUARY POSTMAP CLUB
FEAT. PAINTING + ALEXIA AVINA
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You say: "AI?", Painting say: " AI, Absolutely!" We say: "has nobody seen Terminator II: Judgement Day when Skynet becomes self-aware at approximately 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29, 2007, and in a panic, humans try to pull the plug?" But everyone just ignores as usual so we go upstairs and anxiety eat all 18 bags of a Golden Wonder Transform-A-Snack Spicy Flavour Snacks 18x56g Large Sharing Pack™ while reading actor Michael Biehn's Wikipedia filmography, trying to figure out where it all went wrong.
But our good German friends Painting for one welcome our new robot overloads and FAIR ENOUGH, because in collaboration with Google’s AI LaMDA family of conversational large language models, they have created a song that is absolutely kraut-rockin' good, not to mention available now as part of Lost Map's PostMap Club subscription service in the month of February (as well as on streaming services now). It's taken from the fast-rising Berlin trio's incredible second album Snapshot Of Pure Attention. A breathlessly unpredictable collision of punk energy, math-rock time signatures, techno beats, free-jazz sax solos, blaring synthesisers and tumbling call-and-response vocals, which will be released on April 11, 2025 on limited-edition 12” vinyl and via digital services ( pre-order now). Assuming Skynet doesn't become self-aware first ofc, in which case "don't say we didn't warn you" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
In other news: Alexia Avina walks among us. Not in a Jesus™ type way but quite literally – our American friend walks among us, here in the United Kingdom, on tour (last seen having a nice seat in someone's garden in Oxford). Tonight ( Fri, Feb 21), Alexia supports the fan-tastic Brigid Mae Power in Newcastle, before moving on to Glasgow and Birkenhead for more dates w/ BMP, then returning to Scotland next week for a special LOST MAP TRIPLE-BANGER show at Leith Depot in Edinburgh on Wed, Feb 26 together w/ Faith Eliott + Victoria Hume ( tix on sale here). See below for all of Alexia's live dates. To mark this great moment in US-UK relations, we've put out two stunningly beautiful acoustic tracks from an unreleased Alexia Avina album as part of this month's PostMap Club. They are called 'Wonder' and 'There Is Space'. Is 'Wonder' a song about Golden Wonder Transform-A-Snack Spicy Flavour Snacks? You will have to head to an Alexia Avina show near you to find out (clue: no). |
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Also included in this month's PostMap Club
(Gold Blend and Club Biscuit members only):
Faith Eliott: 'Snowglobe' b/w remix by The Silver Field
A haunting, post-apocalyptic ballad wrapped in atmospheric production by Minneapolis-born, Scotland-based Faith. Taken from their upcoming album Dryas which we already told you all about above (you were paying attention, weren't you?).
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A round-up of the three PostMap Club membership tiers and their respective prices and benefits is as follows below.
REGULAR BREW
£3 per month (digital only for new members as of December 2024)
- Music! 2-3 and sometimes more exclusive PostMap Club releases each month, containing brand new music from singles and rarities to whole EPs, live sessions and more.
- Monthly newsletter! Containing hot goss / farmyard sh*te.
- Discounts! On other Lost Map releases, merchandise, gigs.
- Access to our Portal! Containing live video sessions + mixes.
- Feelgood glow! Help support an independent record label.
GOLD BLEND
£5 + postage, per month
- All of the above except with physical postcards and printed newsletter delivered direct to your door. Plus an annual member's badge!
- New exclusive CD compilation every January, featuring some of our favourite tracks from the previous year, including PostMap Club exclusives. This CD won’t be available for sale elsewhere!
CLUB BISCUIT
£10 + postage, per month
- Same as Gold Blend except with a bigger badge.
Note for existing members:
We've now changed Regular Brew to digital only, but if you’re already a Regular Brew postcard member (i.e. pre-December 2024), you’ll continue to receive your monthly physical postcards and annual badge. However, the exclusive CD is only available to Gold Blend and Club Biscuit members.
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THE LOST MAP GIGS'N'TOURS MEGAMIX
ALABASTER DEPLUME LIVE:
FRI, MAR 14 @ UNDERGROUND ARTS, PHILADELPHIA, PA, US
SAT, MAR 15 @ TUBBY’S, KINGSTON, NY, US
SUN, MAR 16 @ LE POISSON ROUGE NEW YORK, NY, US
TUE, MAR 18 @ BLACK CAT WASHINGTON, DC, US
WED, MAR 19 @ THALIA HALL CHICAGO, IL, US
FRI, MAR 21 @ TRACTOR TAVERN, SEATTLE, WA, US
SAT, MAR 22 @ POLARIS HALL PORTLAND, OR, US
SUN, MAR 23 @ GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC HALL SAN FRANCISCO, CA, US
TUE, MAR 25 @ THE REGENT, LOS ANGELES, CA, US
THU, MAR 27 @ BIG EARS FESTIVAL, KNOXVILLE, TN, US
TUE, APR 29 @ NORWICH ARTS CENTRE, NORWICH, UK
WED, APR 30 @ BRUDENELL SOCIAL CLUB, LEEDS, UK
THU, MAY 1 @ GOSFORTH CIVIC HALL, NEWCASTLE, UK
FRI, MAY 2 @ MONO, GLASGOW, UK
SAT, MAY 3 @ GORILLA, MANCHESTER, UK
TUE, MAY 6 @ TRINITY CENTRE, BRISTOL, UK
WED, MAY 7 @ PHOENIX, EXETER, UK
THU, MAY 8 @ PAPILLON, SOUTHAMPTON, UK
FRI, MAY 9 @ HACKNEY CHURCH, LONDON, UK
SAT, MAY 10 @ CONCORDE 2, BRIGHTON, UK
THU, MAY 15 @ TR SALON IKSV, ISTANBUL, TR
FRI, MAY 16 @ PL NIEBO, WARSAW, PL
SAT, MAY 17 @ XJAZZ!, BERLIN, DE
WED, MAY- 21 @ LE PETIT BAIN, PARIS, FR
THU, MAY 22 @ L'AÉRONEF, LILLE, FR
FRI, MAY 23 @ VENUE TBC, BRUSSELS, BE
SAT, MAY 24 @ ZONNEHUIS, AMSTERDAM, NL
SUN, MAY 25 @ DOORNROOSJE, NIJMEGEN, NL
MON, MAY 26 @ BIRD, ROTTERDAM, NL
SUN, JUN 1 @ JAZZ IS DEAD, TURIN, IT
SAT, JUN 7 @ JAZZ IN THE PARK, CLUJ-NAPOCA, RO
WED, JUL 2 @ ROSKILDE FESTIVAL, ROSKILDE, DK
FRI, JUL 4 @ WORLDWIDE FESTIVAL, SETE, FR
THU, JUL 17 @ MOLDEJAZZ, MOLDE, NO
ALEXIA AVINA LIVE:
FRI, FEB 21 @ CLUNY 2, NEWCASTLE *
SAT, FEB 22 @ HUG AND PINT, GLASGOW *
SUN, FEB 23 @ FUTURE YARD, BIRKENHEAD *
WED, FEB 26 @ LEITH DEPOT, EDINBURGH
(w/ FAITH ELIOTT + VICTORIA HUME) [TICKETS]
SAT, MAR 1 @ THE HERBARIUM, LANCASTER
* = Supporting Brigid Mae Power
BLIND YEO LIVE:
THU, AUG 28 @ SMUGGLER'S FESTIVAL, KENT
FRI, AUG 29 @ BRIGHTON PSYCH FEST, VARIOUS VENUES, BRIGHTON
SAT, AUG 30 @ MANCHESTER PSYCH FEST, VARIOUS VENUES, MANCHESTER
SUN, AUG 31 @ EDINBURGH PSYCH FEST, VARIOUS VENUES, EDINBURGH
FAITH ELIOTT LIVE:
WED, FEB 26 @ LEITH DEPOT, EDINBURGH
(w/ ALEXIA AVINA + VICTORIA HUME) [TICKETS]
THU, APR 3 @ THE ESTABLISHMENT, WAKEFIELD (w/ DEATH TO EVERYONE)
PAINTING LIVE:
FRI, APR 11 @ NOCH BESSER LEBEN, LEIPZIG, DE
SAT, APR 12 @ MUFI, FULDA, DE
WED, APR 23 @ WESTWERK, HAMBURG, DE
THU, APR 24 @ KANTINE AM BERGHAIN, BERLIN, DE
SAT, APR 26 @ KOHI, KARLSRUHE, DE
SUN, APR 27 @ ATELIERKONZERT, STUTTGART, DE
MON, APR 28 @ TRAUMA, MARBURG, DE
PICTISH TRAIL LIVE:
SAT, APR 26 @ CULTVR, CARDIFF (w/ HMS MORRIS)
THU, MAY 29 @ THE LOFT, KINLOSS (SOLO)
FRI, MAY 30 @ AN SEÒMAR, INVERNESS (FULL BAND)
SAT, MAY 31 @ FYNEFEST, CAIRNDOW (FULL BAND)
SEAMUS FOGARTY LIVE:
SAT, MAR 22 @ THEATRESHIP, LONDON (PERFORMING THE ALBUM GOD DAMN YOU MOUNTAIN IN FULL) [TICKETS]
THU, APR 24 @ THE AMERICAN BAR, BELFAST
FRI, APR 25 @ PATRICK KAVANAGH CENTRE, MONAGHAN
SAT, APR 26 @ THE STAR BAR, DUBLIN
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