LONELY ROBOT’S STARRY THIRD OPUS
John Mitchell concludes his sci-fi trilogy with otherworldly sounds.
Remember to look up. That’s the message that Frost* and It Bites frontman John Mitchell has imprinted on the sound of Lonely Robot’s third album. Under Stars, out through InsideOut on April 26, continues the theme of 2016’s The Big Dream with the wandering astronaut heading back to earth.
“The title track came about because I came home from the pub one evening and noticed the sky was perfectly clear. My girlfriend and I jumped on my telescope, and we took photographs of the moon. If I hadn’t looked up, I would have missed that opportunity,” says Mitchell. “There’s so much we don’t see because we don’t look.
“There’s another song called The Signal which is a bit like a very dark version of The Carpenters’ Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft. It gets more intense as it goes on. There are some heavy tracks too, like When Gravity Fails and Ancient Ascendant. It’s very varied and I’m extremely pleased with it.”
Mitchell launched the melodic project in 2014 with the starstudded Please Come Home, but unlike its predecessors, album number three goes back to basics with the musician playing most of the instruments himself. Live drummer Craig Blundell and Fish bassist Steve Vantsis are his only guests, and Mitchell hopes the stars will align for some more live shows.
“I’d like to do somewhere prestigious, like Shepherd’s Bush Empire, to give the concept a grand send-off,” he says.
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