THE PICTISH TRAIL - SINGLE REVIEW

The Pictish Trail - Wait Until (Moshi Moshi Records) 

The Pictish Trail - Wait Until

Old blue eyes is back and, apart from looking like a Scottish Joaquin Phoenix, The Pictish Trail is also highly talented at creating understated things of beauty. 'Wait Until' sees our weather beaten hero create a soulful, moving ditty with nothing more than a gravelly electro bass melody, the sound of two wooden spoons being played on a peg-leg and a bit of whale music. The real beauty of The Pictish Trail, however, is that this is electronic music created with the ethos of folk running through it and you can imagine this single being played out on a series of improbable highland instruments as much as you can hear it as a sequence of electronically produced noises. And they do say, the sign of a good song is whether you can play it on the bagpipes or not.

More information: http://thepictishtrail.com/

Live Dates:

3rd May - Brew At The Bog, Bogbain w/Tuff Love + Kid Canaveral + Randolph's Leap

4th May - The Big Beach Ball, Aberdeen w/Tuff Love

5th May - Spirit of Speyside Festival, Elgin w/Tuff Love

7th May - The Redd Suite, Dundee w/Tuff Love + Monoganon

9th May - Night'n'Day, Manchester w/Tuff Love + Monoganon

10th May - Prince Albert, Stroud w/Tuff Love + Monoganon

11th May - St Dominic's Social Club, Newcastle w/Tuff Love + Monoganon

16th May - The Old Bookshop, Bristol w/Tuff Love + Monoganon

17th May - The Old Bookshop, Bristol w/Tuff Love + Monoganon

17th May - South Streets Arts, Reading w/Tuff Love + Monoganon

18th May - Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, London

19th May - Junction 2, Cambridge w/Tuff Love + Monoganon

21st May - The Tin Music & Arts, Coventry w/Tuff Love + Monoganon

22nd May - The Railway, Winchester w/ Tuff Love + Monoganon

24th May - The Continental, Preston w/Tuff Love + Monoganon

25th May - Bowlers Bar, Glasgow w/Tuff Love + Monoganon

1st August - Cloudspotting Festival, Blackburn