WAYPOINTS #177
26/02/21
NEW LOGO, SAME BULLSH*T
FEAT: JENNY MOORE'S MYSTIC BUSINESS, PICTISH TRAIL, FIRESTATIONS, THE LOST MAP PODCAST, JIMMY NAIL + MORE
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JENNY MOORE'S MYSTIC BUSINESS COVER
'WOMAN IS A WORD' BY EMPRESS OF
“I’m always hunting for mantras, earworms and hooks that I can drench my vocal chords in, making sure there are powerful phrases locked in my muscle memory,” explains Jenny Moore from Jenny Moore's Mystic Business. “When I’m at a loss for words, I reach for those things. When I’m up against power dynamics that try to reinforce boring tropes of gender or undermine my own self-knowledge, I need a groove to settle into that reminds me ‘I’m only an image of what you see.’ Empress Of’s song offered me that groove and I felt compelled to rearrange her song as a way of meditating. Covering this song felt like an act of building resilience for those moments when I feel like I just don’t know how to fight anymore."
We're not really sure what we can add to those clearly very expressive and inspiring words from Jenny about 'Woman Is A Word' (Empress Of cover), the v v good follow up to JMMB's superb debut single for Lost Map, choral-punk banger 'I Am Afraid'. If we tried to add anything then we'd likely only end up saying something stupid and tangential like "Subway's new T.L.C.™ (Tastes.Like.Chicken) plant-based sandwich is surprisingly v v good despite weirdly being named after a pop band from the 90s". So instead we'll just get on with telling you that JMMB's brand new single 'Woman Is A Word' (Empress Of cover) is out now as part of the February installment of the PostMap Club as well as via digital platforms. You can watch a plant-based video here. More great new music to come from JMMB later in 2021 watch this space.
[Fwiw Subway's new T.L.C.™ (Tastes.Like.Chicken) is honestly quite good, we were skeptical at first about the whole "no meat" thing and kept a small packet of cocktail sausages in our pocket just in case we panicked, but nope, we were quite satisfied and ended up just giving the sausages to a passing dog.]
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NEW TEES 4 BANDCAMP DAY
1) Save for getting a face tattoo of our new logo or naming your first-born child in our honour or brutally vanquishing our enemies for us, what better way to show allegiance to Lost Map than with a nice T-shirt?
2) Two new designs in three colours on sale Bandcamp Friday, March 5.
3) £18 (PostMap Club discount).
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GIVE A POSTMAP CLUB GIFT SUBSCRIPTION TODAY
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- SUBSCRIBE BEFORE THE END OF FEBRUARY FOR POSTCARDS FROM PICTISH TRAIL, JENNY MOORE’S MYSTIC BUSINESS AND FIRESTATIONS, AS WELL AS ALL OF MARCH'S POSTCARDS FROM SAVAGE MANSION, SULKA AND ALEXIA AVINA
Be it dogs, weight gain, spiraling alcohol dependency or fat dogs with a drinking problem, many things are not just for Christmas but indeed for life. And so it goes as of now with Lost Map's PostMap Club Gift Subscription. To recap: you may remember that for a limited time only we made it possible to give the gift of PostMap with one of our special PostMap Club Gift Subscriptions. So well received was the PostMap Gift Subscription at Christmas that we've decided to make the PostMap Gift Subscription a subscription that you can gift any time of the year, to anyone you like. Could be a friend, could be a stranger, could be a friendly stranger who you hooked up with one time when you were off your face and politely swapped phone numbers even though you weren't really feeling any particular chemistry tbh. Could be unlikely northern pop singer Jimmy Nail and/or his bff "Sting". Could be that no good do nothing hound of yours which spends all its time layin' around eating cocktail sausages, slurping frozen margaritas and repeat watching all eight instalments in the Beethoven dog-based movie franchise. We honestly don't care, just sign 'em up now.
Your recipient will receive postcards at the beginning of each month, over the course of a year, containing new and exclusive music from Lost Map, as well as a monthly newsletter from Pictish Trail. Their first mail-out will also contain a membership badge (the big Club Biscuit badge pictured above is so big it requires two pins CHONKY). To make things easy, we've created a pricing structure that's inclusive of postage. Just select the pricing option for the territory where your recipient lives and add to cart. It's just like what people often say of poor Jimmy Nail: "really that simple". |
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Included in the February PostMap Club bundle is exclusive new music from Jenny Moore's Mystic Business, Pictish Trail and Firestations. Next month's bundle will feature exclusive new music from Savage Mansion, Sulka and Alexia Avina. 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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CALLUM EASTER
x PICTISH TRAIL
1) Reinventing the tender original with drum machine, organ hum and zither, Callum Easter's remix of 'Slow Memories' by Pictish Trail is on the internet, now.
2) As featured on Pictish's new EP Dream Wall, released April 1, 2021.
3) Yes we had to Google "zither" too.
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LISTEN TO AN ABSURDLY HUGE REMIX OF FIRESTATIONS'
SONG 'NEW DEVICE' BY DREAMTRAK
The expression "perennial banger" may bring to mind unwelcome visions of a Viagra-crazed erotic grandparent, but it seems like the only suitable way of describing the new remix of Firestations' song 'New Device' by Dreamtrak (AKA London-based electro-house producer Oli Horton). It's ridiculously strong and long and just keeps going and going and going, against all sensible medical judgment. A lot like yer randy ol' grandad (randad?).
It really is an absurdly huge and good remix that will put the boot right up the backside of your day however lagging it may be, and send you tearing shirtless around the house chanting "here we, HERE WE, HWFG!!!" scaring the bejeesus out of any children and/or animals present. It features on Firestations' forthcoming new EP Melted Medium, which is released on March 5 ( pre-order now) as part of their Automatic Tendencies project – a series of three EPs embracing a mixtape aesthetic, by including new songs as well as alternative “sunken” versions by the band as well as covers and remixes of new Firestations tracks by other artists. Melted Medium is part two in the series, which in movie terms makes it the dark, moody sequel akin to, say, The Empires Strikes Back (1980) or The Godfather 2 (1974) or Beethoven's 2nd (1993), in which perennial banger Beethoven sires a litter of puppies which the Newton family have to try to save from greedy owner Regina (Debi Mazar), who alternately wishes to kill or sell them. NSFWFH. |
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JOIN OUR FACEGROUP
1) Facebook is a social media website which, just like when Harold Bishop got dramatically swept off the rocks in Neighbours, has found itself in a spot of bother, in Australia.
2) Join the Lost Map Loop for chat / nonsense / cans of Castlemaine 4X.
3) Um, Crocodile Dundee (1986)?
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LISTEN TO THE WAYPOINTS PLAYLIST
1) ♫ Crocodile Dun-deeee Twooo-oooooo ♫
2) ♫ Crocodile Dun-deee Twooo-ooo-ooooooo ♫
3) ♫ Crocodile Dun-deeee Twooo-oooooo ♫
4) ♫ Crocodile Dun-deee Twooo-ooo-ooooooo ♫
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NO CONTEXT ROMEO TAYLOR (2017 THROWBACK EDITION)
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