[Cover photo credit to Michael Mcgrath]

Anglo-Dutch Experimental Rock band The Legendary Pink Dots will be releasing the album So Lonely in Heaven on January 17th, 2025. With members scattered across three countries and two continents, they spent a lot of time traveling to work together. They worked in “cyberspace for months,” but the
“magic happened collectively in small spaces with the tape running.”

Edward Ka-Spel says about the concept for the album:

Way way back in the early days I used to say a lot about ‘The Terminal Kaleidoscope’, a concept comparing the fragile planet we live on to a drowning human being with life flashing before his or her eyes, the images constantly accelerating. It’s 2024, a little over two decades since the turn of this unbearably turbulent century and the concept appears to have become an unlikely soap opera where we are the cast. Let’s hang in there….

The machine is everything we are. It sees everything, hears everything, knows everything and feeds, speeds, drinks us down, spits us out – we lost control of it at the instant of its conception. You may cough, curse and die, but the machine will resurrect you without the flaws, at your peak, smiling from a screen, bidding someone in a lonely room to join you. It’s an invitation from Heaven, where anyone can be anything they want to be, but it’s a Nation of One. You’ll be everything we are. You’ll be a shadow of yourself. You’ll repeat yourself – endlessly. You’ll be desperate for some kind of explanation. You’ll be lonely. So very lonely…