So Lonely In Heaven

THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS

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Release date and track list

January 17, 2025
NL/UK MP3/CD/2LP

  1. Lonely in Heaven
  2. The Sound of the Bell
  3. Dr Bliss
  4. Sleight of Hand
  5. Choose Premium – Carnival – The Rally
  6. Cold Comfort
  7. Wired High – Too Far to Fall-How Many Fingers in the Fog
  8. Blood Money – Transitional- Pass the Accident
  9. Everything Under the Moon

Credits
  • Erik Drost- Acoustic and Electric Guitars, bass guitar
  • Randall Frazier- synthesisers, devices
  • Edward Ka-Spel – Voice, devices
  • Joep Hendrikx – live electronics, devices
  • Raymond Steeg & Peter Van Vliet – mastering

Simon Paul – Cover design and layout.  Thank you Alena for your enduring support!


Notes

From Bandcamp January 2025:
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 2 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….. EK

SO LONELY IN HEAVEN – THE CREATION

‘So Lonely in Heaven’ is The Legendary Pink Dots’ second album since the World stopped for a Global Pandemic.
With members scattered across three countries and two continents, our guilty confession is that quite a few Air Miles were consumed in its creation.
Ideas were spun across Cyberspace for months, but the magic happened collectively in small spaces with the tape running.

SO LONELY IN HEAVEN – THE MESSAGE

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…