SAVAGE MANSION will explore themes of isolation and the unknown with their latest record.

The Glasgow-based five-piece release their third album Golden Mountain, Here I Come on Friday, February 25.

An odyssey of the mind, a treatise of seclusion, the band take listeners on a fictional trip up Golden Mountain – a journey inspired by the shackles of lockdown.

The band's frontman Craig Angus recalls: "It was something that came to me at work one day.

"I used to scrawl ideas on bits of paper as I went about my business, and the idea of 'now climbing Golden Mountain' appealed to me looking back through notes.

"It felt a little bit like something you'd find in sci-fi or fantasy fiction maybe.

"And I like the idea of a destination or landmark being the centrepiece of a work. Like the way Dylan used Highway 61 as a frame to explore a specific time."

"Over time, Golden Mountain became a place-holder for something else," he continues. "A looser destination, sometimes a physical place, sometimes a mental state.

"I think a lot of that was to do with being confined to one room, more or less, for months on end.

"You're living in this stasis, with no real grasp on how long it'll last, so a lot of living becomes imagined."

Golden Mountain, Here I Come is the first Savage Mansion album made with Beth Chalmers on keys, something which helped to shape the direction of the record from the beginning.

Angus adds: "There were five people actively having a say about musical direction, whereas in the past the songs were 80-90 per cent fully formed before they got to rehearsal rooms.

"We reworked a lot of the songs beyond recognition this time. I had to let go of a lot of the expectations I had, and it's a stronger body of work as a consequence, more adventurous."

Savage Mansion will be out on the road this spring, supporting Pictish Trail on a number of UK dates.

They will perform at Summerhall, Edinburgh, on April 7 and Beat Generator in Dundee on April 8.

Aberdeen's Lemon Tree then awaits on April 9 with the tour coming to an end at The Tolbooth in Stirling on April 10.