A mesmeric, slow-build psychedelic-electronica-pop eight-minute number of gradual transformation rising to a krautrock-inspired crescendo by the isle of Eigg-based Scottish musician Johnny Lynch, heralding his sixth LP Life Slime, produced by Mike Lindsay of Tunng and LUMP, out on 14 November on Lost Map Records / Fire Records.
Lynch explains: “It’s a song about trying to stay grounded when someone is determined to misunderstand you. When people disagree, it can so quickly turn into accusation, as if you’re deliberately causing harm. You start to feel like you’re being rewritten in someone else’s story, cast as the villain in a version of events you don’t even recognise. The line ‘What I see of myself just isn’t true’ is about that moment – when the reflection you’re being shown doesn’t match who you are, but you still feel the weight of it. The song starts softly, building slowly, almost cautiously, and grows in confidence as it goes on – like finding the courage to speak up, or to stand by your own sense of self. By the end, it becomes something much freer and more expansive. The stone in the song doesn’t just break, it breaks out – crumbling, rolling, escaping. That’s the liberation at the heart of it: the moment you realise you don’t have to stay fixed in place, holding up someone else’s construction. You can move, change, and still keep your core.”
To explore and enjoy more by Pictish Trail aka Johnny Lynch, including other recent singles Infinity Ooze and Hold It, see also the other embedded links below.
Put it another way
So I can see your side
Turn me on my back
If you must
Go on, try
If there's another way out
Well, I'll want to see that
So sing to me your elegant song
Stop your head shaking
You move me like a stone
Softly breaking
You move me like a stone
Gently waking
Are we prepared to feel our way through?
Look, don’t talk yourself out of this
Don’t convince yourself
You’re doing it wrong
This is a difficult task
Another entrance lays waiting
And it pulls me so
And it pulls me down stairs
If I’m not mistaken
You move me like a stone
Softly breaking
You move me like a stone
Crumbling out
Escaping
If the mirror’s on me
And why wouldn’t it be?
Am I pretending the reflection
Is from your point of view
What I see of myself
Just isn’t true?
If the mirrors on me
Why shouldn't it be
On you?
If I don’t have the answers
And neither do you
Put it another way
You have all the questions
And I have questions too
Stop your head from shaking
You move me like a stone
Softly breaking
You move me like a stone
Rolling out
Gently waking
You move me like a stone
Crumbling out
Escaping
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