'Island Family' is Pictish Trail’s contrarian view of arcadia; a search for the euphoric in the bucolic, bound up in sometimes conflicting ideas and feelings around nature and environment, sincerity and artifice, escapism and belonging. It’s an album about how no man can remain an island, however hard he might try.

Hear shows from Rats On Rafts, Jane Weaver, Marta Del Grandi, interviews with Max Reinhardt, and a session from Marina Allen.

Jane Weaver's 'Flock' has landed on BBC6 Radio's Top 10. "Jane Weaver is an artist who is always doing fascinating things" Lauren Laverne - BBC6 Radio

Jane Weaver's 'Flock', Vanishing Twin's 'Ookii Gekkou' and Marina Allen's 'Candlepower' have landed on Rough Trade's Best Albums Of The Year

'Island Family'  is Pictish Trail’s contrarian view of arcadia; a search for the euphoric in the bucolic, bound up in sometimes conflicting ideas and feelings around nature and environment, sincerity and artifice, escapism and belonging. It’s an album about how no man can remain an island, however hard he might try.

A purgative surrender to nature’s whim driven by a clattering machine drumbeat and rolled in a puddle of filthy dirty fuzz, ‘Natural Successor’ is the riotous new single from isle of Eigg based Scottish psychedelic electronic-pop ogre