PICTISH TRAIL has been so busy organising the 'Island Family Gathering’ event on Eigg that he's run out of time to record a conversation with LAURA this month - so you'll just have to listen to him all on his own. His voice sounds different on its own, doesn’t it?

We’re half-way through the year, normally a time to take stock, and ruminate over the delights of the past 6 months, while sipping a colourful cocktail, drifting across an outdoor swimming pool on a lilo, wearing only a thong. PICTISH TRAIL doesn’t have time for any of that, mind you. He’s struggling to remember how to erect the food marquee for the upcoming ISLAND FAMILY GATHERING event happening on Eigg this weekend, and has used up all his mobile data perusing unhelpful instructional videos. As such, he’s been unable to have a web-chat with his usual co-host, LAURA. She has managed to send over a lo-fi recording via dial-up, mind you.

GORDON McINTYRE is our featured interview this month, talking us through his songwriting process, and the making of his brand new solo LP, Even With The Support Of Others - which is out on LP on July 15th.
As well as all that, we've got music and tour news from BAS JAN and ALEXIA AVINA, some PostMap Club sounds from a mysterious London-based electronic collective known simply as SDF, plus a full run-down of all the different acts playing at the Island Family Gathering.

To support Lost Map, and to help us release more music in 2022, join our PostMap Club. A monthly membership starts at just £3, and you'll receive printed postcards delivered to your door every month, containing downloads of new music from the label. You'll receive a membership badge, too - as well as a newsletter and discount codes for other stuff from our webshop. Gift memberships are also available. Visit lostmap.com/club for details on how to join.

EPISODE TRACKLISTING:

1. Bas Jan - 'Baby U Know'
2. SDF - 'Can’t Get High'
3. Gordon McIntyre - clips of Even With The Support Of Others
4. Gordon McIntyre - 'In The Halls Of The Transplant Ward'
5. Alexia Avina - 'On The Path'

SOME USEFUL LINKS:

PostMap Club: http://lostmap.com/club
Gordon McIntyres Even With the Support Of Others pre-order: https://www.lostmap.com/products/gordon-mcintyre-even-with-the-support-of-othersGordon McIntyre + LT Leif, St Vincent’s Chapel, Edinburgh, 22nd July: https://www.lostmap.com/tickets/gordon-mcintyre-album-launchLost Map Showcase, Daylight Music London, 16th July: http://daylightmusic.co.uk/event/348/
Pictish Trail + Bas Jan September Tour 2022: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cei6iEaq5_O/

You can find Pictish Trail over on Twitter, @pictishtrail

Lost Map Podcast is presented by Pictish Trail. Additional production and editing by Joe Cormack

Our last podcast of 2021 is filled with all the festive trimmings you might expect from a trolley dash around your local branch of Iceland at 7.45pm on Christmas Eve. Which is to say, not very festive at all. Still there’s some discount Eigg-nog on offer, and new music from Lost Map playing over the tannoy.

PICTISH TRAIL is about to leave the Hebrides on a boat to the mainland, to host a weekend of Lost Map showcases… but not before he’s spilled all the juice on what’s to come for the label in 2022.

Ahead of his headline peformance at the Edinburgh edition of our HUMBUG! weekender, CALLUM EASTER talks us through the making of his brand new album, System, which is out now on Moshi Moshi Records in association with Lost Map.

GORDON McINTYRE, he of ballboy fame, ingratiates himself as part of the Lost Map family with some painful gigging memories in our regular FIRST GIG WORST GIG segment. You can hear his new Xmassy song ‘Berlin’, too.

There’s also an introduction into the synth-pop world of MARANTA, as well as the first play of a new song from FIRESTATIONS.

EPISODE TRACKLISTING:
1. Maranta - ’Stop Pretending’

2. Clips of Callum Easter’s System

3. Callum Easter - ‘Lose Sometime’

4. Gordon McIntyre - ‘Berlin’

5. Firestations - ‘Reflection Spells'

To support Lost Map, and to own the music featured in the programme, join our PostMap Club. A monthly membership starts at just £3, and you'll receive printed postcards delivered to your door every month, containing downloads of new music from the label. You also receive a membership badge, newsletter and discount codes for other stuff from our webshop. Visit lostmap.com/club for details on how to join.

Lost Map Podcast is presented by Pictish Trail. Additional production and editing by Joe Cormack.