Let’s face it, it's pretty much Xmas already, so for the next 60 minutes just surrender yourself to a good stuffing of audio enjoyment, in a suitably festive episode of the Lost Map Podcast - featuring tracks from our Xmas Card compilation, and a lot of tenuous Yuletide features.

Ho ho ho, Pictish Trail’s stuck up the chimney, his sack literally bulging with postcards. In this month’s episode of the Lost Map Podcast, we unveil a very special Xmas Card containing a compilation of NINE (count ‘em!) tracks from various acts on the Lost Map roster. In order to validate their Xmas credentials, we’ve asked a few band members to list their Top Five Best Things That Are Christmassy, covering the key topics of Food, Songs, Films and Boozes.

In addition to all this merriment, we roast some proverbial chestnuts with Matt Gibb - aka bedroom glitch-pop producer, Kinbote - in a chat about his involvement with the ReAnalogue collective and the making of his debut album, Shifting Distance (out December 4th).

In First Gig / Worst Gig, we invite Jenny Moore (of Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business fame) to usher the ghost of Xmas Past, recalling her first gig experience as a punter, and her worst gig experience as a performer.

And in this month’s edition of THIS OR THAT we subject our robot cowboy, A.R. Pinewood, to a gruelling assault of binary snowballs. Oooft.

EPISODE TRACKLISTING:

1. Happy Clarinetty - ’I Remember Christmas’

2. Kinbote - ‘Hiemalis’

3. Kinbote - ‘(On A String)’

4. Friends Of The Guinness - ’Ciara’

5. Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business - ‘I Am Afraid’

6. Fell - ‘Fear Of Christmas’

7. A.R. Pinewood - ’Tis The Season’

8. Friends Of The Guinness - ’Town For Tomorrow'

To support Lost Map, and to listen to all the music featured in the programme in full, you should join our PostMap Club. A monthly membership starts at just £3, and you'll receive printed postcards delivered to your door every month, containing downloads of new music from the label. You also receive a membership badge, newsletter and discount codes for other stuff from our webshop. Visit lostmap.com/club for details on how to join.

Lost Map Podcast is presented by Pictish Trail. Additional production and editing by Joe Cormack. This episode is made possible with support from Creative Scotland.