It gives Lost Map great pleasure to introduce Manuela, the London-based project comprising vocalist and songwriter Manuela Gernedel and multi-instrumentalist and producer Nick McCarthy (Franz Ferdinand, FFS), with the release of their debut single ‘Cracks in the Concrete’, which premiered yesterday via Stereogum and is available to stream and share now. Out now as a PostMap postcard single and download, available exclusively from lostmap.com, and accompanied by a thumping disco remix B-side by London DJ Nadia Ksaiba, it’s a joyous introduction to their addictive, eclectic, off-the-wall and instantly refreshing DIY pop sound, and a perfect taster of their forthcoming debut album.
Read moreKid Canaveral's Faulty Inner Dialogue - Pre-Order today!
Kid Canaveral have revealed another new track from their forthcoming third album Faulty Inner Dialogue, which will be released by Lost Map Records on July 29, 2016 on vinyl, CD and as a digital download. ‘Tragic Satellite’ is the second song to be aired from the much anticipated follow-up to their Scottish Album of the Year longlisted second album 2013’s Now That You Are A Dancer, after the video for ‘First We Take Dumbarton’ was premiered by The Skinny in May and hailed as Single of the Month by Clash magazine and “a ready-made radio hit” by The List. Kid Canaveral will launch the new album with a show at Summerhall, Edinburgh on Saturday, July 30, with support from Malcolm Middleton.
Read moreWATCH AND SHARE THE NEW PICTISH TRAIL VIDEO FOR 'FAR GONE (DON'T LEAVE)' + BUY THE POSTCARD SINGLE
Gagged and bound, sweaty with nervous anticipation, thrashing in the night as a mysterious man looks to do us a wrong 'un. But enough about what we got up to on Saturday night and more about the new video from Pictish Trail for the song 'Far Gone (Don't Leave)', which premiered this morning as a schnazzy front page splash over at LostMap.com. Oooooh.
Read moreWATCH A MINI-DOCUMENTARY ABOUT ROZI PLAIN
As if you didn't already want to be BFFs with Rozi Plain enough - she of lovely songs, cool hair and fearless trouser choices - wait until you get a load of this brand new mini-documentary all about the Plainster made by Hankins Films. Ever the charmer, Rozi talks about her life and music, laughs, sends some texts on a bus, buys some fruit, laughs, does some other things then laughs a bit more, all while wearing a nice tartan jacket. Basically if you like watching Rozi Plain wearing a nice tartan jacket and laughing, then this is definitely for you ...
Read morePICTISH TRAIL RETURNS ... STREAM THE NEW SINGLE 'FAR GONE (DON'T LEAVE)'
Something of a sonic hermit, Pictish Trail has spent the past few years tucked away in his caravan on the Hebridean isle of Eigg, feverishly working on the follow up to Secret Soundz Vol. 1&2, his critically-acclaimed double album of DIY electronic folk-tinged croft pop, released in 2014. Now Spring has sprung, Pictish has emerged with a new clutch of songs, his most confident and accomplished sounding yet.
After more ponderous digital teasing than Radiohead reinvented as overweight sexcam exhibitionists (eeew), it is finally, finally time for us to bring to you - *drumroll* - the new single by Pictish Trail ... 'FAR GONE (DON'T LEAVE)' ...
Read moreKID CANAVERAL TEASE THEIR NEW ALBUM AND SHARE A BRAND NEW SINGLE CALLED 'FIRST WE TAKE DUMBARTON'
The first new single from Kid Canaveral's third album, Faulty Inner Dialogue is out now. It's called 'First We Take Dumbarton', and is available on all digital channels, as well as on a postcard as part of our PostMap series. The postcard comes with B-side "Seventy-Five Milligrams", and is available only from our webshop & live Kid Canaveral shows ...
Read moreIntroducing ... the incredible ICHI and 'Maru'!
Lost Map Records are thrilled to welcome Bristol-based Japanese experimental singer-songwriter, instrument- maker and performance artist ICHI to the label for the release of his playful masterstroke, Maru
Read moreHOWLIN' FLING TICKETS SOLD OUT!
Tickets for Howlin' Fling, our summer party on the isle of Eigg, have now SOLD OUT! It was our fastest selling event, with all tickets going within 5 minutes of going on sale - yowza! If you were lucky enough to grab a ticket, congratulations!
Read moreAAAAA-WOOOOOOOOH… HOWLIN’ FLING RETURNS!
As that big four-eyed Viking sea monster above rightly says, Lost Map Records will be hosting a Howlin’ Fling! festival this summer over the weekend of July 1st & 2nd on our home patch, the remote Scottish isle of Eigg. Aaaaa-wooooooooh! Click for more info ...
INTRODUCING VICTORIA HUME - STREAM AND SHARE HER LOST MAP DEBUT TRACK 'CLOSING'
Meet the newest addition to the Lost Map label roster: Johannesburg-based English singer-songwriter Victoria Hume. Her stunning Closing EP will be our first release of the new year, arriving on January 15, 2016 on limited-edition CD and as a digital download (pre-order here for just £6.99). The title track ‘Closing’ is available to stream and share now,
Read moreTUFF LOVE'S RESORT IS ALL THE TUFF LOVE YOU NEED IN ONE HANDY PACKAGE
Here at Lost Map people are always complimenting us on our tight little packages, and we haven't really known what they've meant by that until now that we've put together Resort, the debut compilation album by Tuff Love, which is surely the definition of a tight little package. Bringing together on one disc all three of the band's critically-acclaimed 10" coloured vinyl EPs to date - Junk, Dross (both now sold-out and digitally-deleted) and Dregs - in chronological order, it's like a handy short history of the Tuffs to date, from mere pups to top dawgs ...
Read moreTuff Love show their stripes, on 'Duke' video
The only thing better than Tuff Love releasing yet another brand new EP - as they'll do on November 6 in the form of Dregs, which you can pre-order now from the Lost Map webshop - then it's Tuff Love bringing said brand new EP to your town and just bloody well playing songs from it right there in front of you thankyouverymuch. If you want to get face 2 face with Julie and Suse in the manner described, then you're in luck because they are very soon as in this November soon embarking on what is not called Tuff Love's Rad Action Super Fun Party Mega Tour Yeah IV, even if it probably should be called that now that we see all those exciting words side by side.
Read moreMeet Rozi Plain's 'Best Team' ...
As of 18th September, Rozi Plain's new album, Friend, has been officially released across mainland Europe - and so to celebrate we've got a video of her latest single, 'Best Team', to share with you. In the vid, Rozi forms quite a violent looking girl gang ... who interlock hands and threaten all and sundry with a wall-of-death. It's got Kate Stables from This Is The Kit in it, looking especially violent. Click READ MORE to watch the video ...
Read moreListen to the new single from Tuff Love's 3rd EP!
Completing their triumphant trio of introductory EPs, Julie & Suse (aka Tuff Love), are excited to announce their new EP Dregs, which is due Nov 6th via Lost Map Records. If you pre-order the Dregs EP from the Lost Map webshop right now, you'll receive an instant download of the lead single 'Duke'.
Read moreKID CANAVERAL'S XMAS BAUBLES TICKETS WERE ON SALE ... THEN SOLD OUT!
Kid Canaveral's 2015 edition of Christmas Baubles will be an intimate affair at Pilrig St Paul's Church Hall in Edinburgh on Saturday, December 19. Tickets have sold out.
Read moreSEAMUS FOGARTY GET HIS DUCKS IN A ROW
Seamus Fogarty's new EP Ducks and Drakes is out on September 4, 2015 on super rare-edition 12” vinyl with self-designed screen-printed sleeve (250 copies only) and as a BandCamp / iTunes download. For a limited time, you can purchase the 12" EP with the double CD of Seamo's debut album, God Damn You Mountain, at a special price of just £14.99.
It will be launched with a "launch" show, such is the custom, at Servants Jazz Quarters in London TONIGHT ... that's Tuesday, September 1. Tickets are on sale here
Read moreGASSSSP! IT'S A SUMMER SALE!
We have an utterly disgusting SALE on.
We’re selling a wide selection of incredible Lost Map items at frankly putrid prices.
Have a look at this page: www.lostmap.com/sale
You’ll get all nauseous at our discounts, dry heave at our reduced price bundles, and positively gag at the very thought of all the pounds you are prospectively saving. As if that wasn’t enough, the added 10% discount on all orders over £50 (if you enter the code SCORCHER at check-out) will damn near make you disgrace yourself all over your clean tile floor.
Look, don’t say we didn’t warn you. Be sure and clean up after you.
Oh, and you’re welcome.
Read moreHowlin' Fringe this weekend - last few tickets onsale now! Bands! Beers! Food! Comedy! Haircuts!
AKA 11 REASONS TO GO TO PENICUIK THIS WEEKEND
Howlin' Fringe is kicking off tomorrow, Saturday 8th August ... and we've got 11 reasons as to why you should visit Penicuik!
Read moreFULL LINE-UP FOR HOWLIN' FRINGE ANNOUNCED!
Slow Club, Seamus Fogarty, The Pictish Trail, Tuff Love, Randolph's Leap, Kid Canaveral, Rozi Plain and Supermoon: let's get that bit out of the way first, which is to say the full line-up for Lost Map's Howlin' Fringe! at Penicuik Town Hall on Saturday, August 8. Save for the pending additions of a few funny people ("comedians") TBA, anyway, assuming we can coax one or two of them away from the orgy of queuing and wasted paper that is the "Edinburgh Fringe". Our last remaining tickets are on sale at £18, so get buying now if you don't want to miss out.
Read moreSeamus Fogarty announced for Howlin' Fringe!, and new EP on the way too!
Soooo ... now that it's only a month until our Howlin' Fringe! all-day event takes place in Penicuik Town Hall (Saturday 8th August) it's about time we started announcing the line-up! Over the next few weeks, we'll drip-feed you with details of who is playing ... and the first act we can announce is our very own Seamus Fogarty.
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