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'

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