Category: LONELY ROBOT

John Mitchell, guitarist, singer-songwriter and producer known for his work with It Bites, Frost*, Arena and Asia, has announced the final LONELY ROBOT album; ”An Ending”.
Mitchell began LONELY ROBOT inspired by a single image: Carl Sagan requesting that the cameras on Voyager 2 be turned around before the probe left our solar system forever. What came back was the Pale Blue Dot, a photograph of Earth from 3.7 billion miles away. A barely visible speck suspended in a ray of light. That image, and everything Sagan wrote about it, is where LONELY ROBOT was born.
Over five wonderful melodic progressive albums, Mitchell has followed an astronaut stranded in space, unable to return home. He gazes down at that pale blue dot and asks the kind of questions Sagan spent his life wrestling with. What are we? Why do we behave as we do? What does it mean to be human?
The first three Lonely Robot albums looked outward at our species. The fourth and fifth turned the lens inward, as the same frailties the astronaut had observed in humanity, he began to recognize in himself. The grand philosophical questions became something far more personal. The big picture and the individual life are, it turns out, the same thing.
”An Ending” is where the two threads finally come together. Mitchell always sensed that this would be the conclusion for LONELY ROBOT, but the astronaut’s journey of discovery and acceptance was an important story to tell. As a closing chapter, ”An Ending” feels complete, heartfelt, and entirely deserving of the legacy LONELY ROBOT has built over the past decade…

LONELY ROBOT, the project masterminded by producer, guitarist and singer / songwriter John Mitchell (It Bites, Frost*), returns with its 5th studio album ”A Model Life”, to be released next week end. Broadening his sonic palette, John explores new territory on this record, crafting sounds more expansive in nature but never lacking his inherent feel for big melodies and even bigger choruses.
In many ways this new album brings to mind the sound many progressive acts adopted in the ’80s, with a strong rock&pop patina, like Yes-Rabin, Pink Floyd-Gilmour, etc.
From the introspective title track, the moving ‘Recalibrating’, to the soaring, awesome melodic ‘Duty Of Care’, this a record unlike anything in Mitchell’s catalogue. Once again joined by drummer extraordinaire Craig Blundell (Steve Hackett), ”A Model Life” is yet another brilliant entry into an already impressive career…

While always very busy, the It Bites front man, Frost* and Arena guitarist and of course solo artist John Mitchell has still found time to release a diverting trilogy of albums since 2015 under the LONELY ROBOT moniker. This new album “Under Stars” released today completes the series, and sees the protagonist, The Astronaut, continue his disorientating journey from the...