WAYPOINTS #176
12/02/21
"I'M ONLY AN IMAGE OF WHAT YOU SEE"
FEAT: PICTISH TRAIL, JENNY MOORE'S MYSTIC BUSINESS, FIRESTATIONS, THE LOST MAP PODCAST, REG DWIGHT + MORE
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NEW MUSIC FROM PICTISH TRAIL
"The bitch is back", as Elton John once sang. At different times Elton John of course also sang "I am your robot and I'm programmed to love you / my serial number is 44357", and "a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, in the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight" and "aaaaaaahhhmmmm dill dandin'," but that's hardly the point, is it? The point is this: the bitch, as we say, is back. Are we calling Pictish Trail a bitch? You bet we are. You should hear what he said about you behind your back. Not you Elton (love you Elton, call us Elton 🤙).
His first new music in almost a year, Bitchtish Trail's bitchin' new track 'Dream Wall' – which for some reason keeps making us crave Walls' delicious but admittedly weird Wall Bangers™ crunchy sausages from the 90s – is available to stream and share now. Back with a (wall) bang(er), Johnny's also gone done a brand new EP, also titled Dream Wall, which is available now exclusively to PostMap Club subscribers (and non-exclusively to everyone else via digital services from April 1). Packed with kaleidoscopic remixes of Pictish songs by Lost Map luminaries and friends including Callum Easter, Kinbote, Bamboo and Good Dog, the Dream Wall EP represents an appendage of sorts to his critically acclaimed fourth album Thumb World, which was released last year on Fire Records ( still on sale now). Think of the Dream Wall EP like a side-serving of tasty-educational Alphabetti spaghetti to Thumb World's novelty home-cooked battered sausages. Mmmmmm, nutritious.
In other Pictish news, his 2021 spring tour dates are – no great surprise – postponed again, to spring 2022 (original tickets still valid, full list of dates and ticket links can be found here). Only a year and a bit away, guys. NBD. We can make it through this, *sighs, deeply*. All together now: "OOOOHH AAAAHMMM, DILL, DANDIN'."
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BACK IN BLACK: THE LOST MAP SWEATSHIRT
1) The ideal garment for goths, burglars, mourners or merely the understated, the iconic Lost Map sweatshirt is now available, in black.
2) Black, like our cold, dead hearts
⚰️🦇🕷🥀🖤
3) Just £28 (other colours are available)
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FEBRUARY POSTMAP CLUB FEAT:
JENNY MOORE'S MYSTIC BUSINESS
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Sometimes doing a cover is just a rubbish and lazy excuse for not being able to come up with a decent song of your own. Other times, it's an opportunity to put your personal, powerful and original slant on a piece of work that has somehow touched you deep inside and with which you'd like to touch other people in turn (not like that). For instance, Duran Duran's '911 Is a Joke', Take That's 'Smells Like Teen Spirit', 'Chasing Rainbows' by the Indie AllStars or Will Smith's sympathetic and deeply moving reversioning of The Clash's 'Rock the Casbah', re-titled quite simply: 'Will 2K'.
Add to that list – actually ignore that list, we were being ironical – Jenny Moore's Mystic Business with their GENUINELY personal, powerful and original slant on American alt-R&B singer Empress Of's 'Woman Is A Word'. Available now as part of the February PostMap Club bundle and set to land on digital services next week, it's the perfect song for JMMB, fired as they are by the raw power and untamed joy of communal singing and the breaking down of words into rhythmic tools. A rabble-rousing six-piece ensemble led by London-based Canadian vocalist and visual artist Jenny Moore, JMMB released their debut single for Lost Map, 'I Am Afraid', at the end of last year, and it'll lead a forthcoming EP – due this summer – alongside 'Woman is a Word'. At least one young PostMap Club member seems to already be a big fan, judging by this matter-of-factual piece of correspondence posted to Eigg: |
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We're not crying, you're crying. Okay we are crying. But you're crying too. Everyone's crying. Even Will Smith's crying.
Also included in the February PostMap Club bundle is new music from Pictish Trail (see above) and Firestations (see below). A round-up of the now THREE PostMap Club membership tiers and their respective prices and benefits is as follows:
REGULAR BREW
£3 + postage, per month
- Postcards! At least two collectible PostMap postcards sent to your door at the end of every month – each containing download codes for a mixture of brand new music on Lost Map, alongside a random selection from our archives. When you sign up you'll also receive the previous month's postcards, completely free.
- Badge! Plus a new badge for every year of your subscription.
- Monthly newsletter! Containing hot goss / farmyard sh*te.
- Discounts! On other Lost Map releases, merchandise, gigs.
- Feelgood glow! Help support an independent record label.
GOLD BLEND
£5 + postage, per month
- All of the above except with a bigger badge.
CLUB BISCUIT
£10 + postage, per month
- All of the above except with an EVEN BIGGER badge.
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VOULEZ-VOUS COUCHER AVEC THE LOST MAP PODCAST?
1) Valentine's Day can mean only one thing: lowering the lights, getting close with someone special, removing your trousers and listening to the new Lost Map Podcast.
2) Feat. Valentines special edition of This Or That.
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WATCH FIRESTATIONS' NEW VIDEO FOR 'THE CIRCULAR'
Something that is famously circular and circular only is the Glasgow Subway (the underground railway, not the tremendous sandwich shop ™), and as such Firestations' excellent new track 'The Circular' can't help but remind us of the time we nearly died, on the Glasgow Subway. One time we were on it (the Glasgow Subway), and we were in a bit of a daydream and we didn't realise we'd reached our stop until the doors were starting to close. So we leapt to our feet and, because we were carrying two large bags, instinctively stuck our head between the closing doors, thinking it would automatically prevent the doors from closing. Except the Glasgow Subway is a very basic subway, and instead the doors simply shut, on our neck. Our head was sticking out of the train. And the train started to move off, towards the very narrow tunnel. Luckily a girl on the platform saw this happening and ran to alert the driver, and he stopped and opened the doors, and we fell out with all of our shopping spilling all over the platform. All involved just stared at one other in silence for a moment, like "woah". Then everyone carried on with their business. Life carried on, but we still reflect on that near death experience sometimes, from time to time. Sometimes for example we'll absent-mindedly eat an entire deck of Bourbon biscuits standing up while staring into space, imagining our brains splattered all over the tunnel wall, like "woah". Makes you think.
Anyway, where were we? Yes, Firestations' excellent new track 'The Circular', the brand new video for which you can watch and share right now. It's taken from the band's forthcoming new EP Melted Medium, pre-orders for the limited-edition hand-made artwork version of which we're afraid sold out last Bandcamp Friday (sorry), but which you can still pre-order as a CD with sticker, or in the digital style. ‘The Circular’ is a motorik earworm in praise of revisionism, which Michael from Firestations explains is all about "exploring, uncovering and owning the past rather than accepting mythologised versions." Woah, hard relate. Pass the Bourbons. |
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JOIN OUR FACEGROUP
1) Facebook is only the social media website that Bebo could have been.
2) Join the Lost Map Loop for chat / nonsense / top 8 friends related melodrama.
3) Wait, what?
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LISTEN TO THE WAYPOINTS PLAYLIST
1) ♫ OOOOHH AAAAHMMM, DILL, DANDIN' ♫
2) ♫ AFTE AAALLLLL DISSSSS A TAAAHHHM ♫
3) ♫ LOOOOOOOKIN' LIKE A TRUE SUVIVAH ♫
4) ♫ FUUUEEEEELIN' LIKE A LIIIITTLE CAAAN ♫
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