They’re both involved in the day-to-day running of the label, and I figured it would be fun to be in a band with my pals.

Kate and Bart were the first two I approached, funnily enough. It was only when I started asking folks that I thought, 'oh, this could actually be its own thing'. So, aye, I started looking at players on the roster based in Scotland. Johnny Lynch: Initially, the idea was to have some sort of 'Lost Map House Band', a group that could act as an impromptu backing band for the different singer-songwriters on the label. How did you decide who would be involved in this collective celebrating ten years of the label? In celebration of the band and their debut release, we catch up Lynch, Lazda and Owl, who happen to also all work for the label on the regular. Written and recorded on Eigg, it is absolutely not what we were expecting from this self-professed 'party band', but we are here for it and excited for the full album set to follow later in the year. Astral Difficulties / Weird Wave is nine-and-a-half minutes of relentless drums, driving grooves, effervescent synths and psychedelic vocals.

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