A channel-hopping cabin-fever-dream flipping from warped boyband ballad to deep-fried fuzz pop, ‘Remote Control’ is the shapeshifting new single from Isle-of-Eigg dwelling electro-acoustic psych-pop wonder Pictish Trail, AKA Johnny Lynch. The climactic closing track from his critically-acclaimed fifth album Island Family – released by Fire Records earlier in 2022 with support from Lost Map ¬– it’s accompanied by a mind-melting remix by London electro-pop ensemble Superorganism, as well as a quite possibly groundbreaking multi-channel video, directed by Sam Wisternoff (Ill Spectre Films), who has made all of the videos for Island Family so far.
Suitable to the channel-surfing themes of ‘Remote Control’, the video is in fact five different videos, which can be viewed either as a single continuous edit, or all at once on a dedicated viewing platform called Eiggflix, which allows viewers to flick between the five videos at will (almost) seamlessly as the track plays -
pictishtrail.co.uk/remote-control
released August 16, 2022