Lonely Robot launch ‘Digital God Machine’/ third single taken from new album ‘A Model Life’
Lonely Robot, the project masterminded by
vocalist, guitarist & producer John Mitchell, are set to release their
fifth studio album ‘A Model Life’ on the 26th August 2022. With
just a few days till release, a video for the album’s third single ‘Digital God
Machine’ has been launched. Watch it now here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-kGWnT86rk
John comments: “It’s
the internet age people! And with every computer connected to it comes a free
opinion. For some reason, the world of progressive rock fandom bears down on
the timid musician struggling to make his way with the weight of said opinion.
Said fandom LIKES and values it’s own opinion with much aplomb and shares it
with alarming regularity from the bravery of great distance and safety. Thus is
born the ‘Digital God Machine’.”
Watch the previously released video for
‘Recalibrating’ here: https://youtu.be/YvdqPJ0NVTk
Watch the video for ‘The Island of Misfit
Toys’ here: https://youtu.be/mgVfWL-Qt7E
An album that brims with
frustration at the state of things, while tugging remorselessly at the heart
strings, A Model Life is plainly the most honest and vulnerable Lonely Robot
record to date. From opener Recalibrating, which muses on the aftermath of a
broken relationship, and Digital God Machine – a sardonic tribute to keyboard
warriors everywhere, to the boys-don’t-cry pathos of Rain Kings and the
absurdly moving, adoption-themed Duty Of Care, these new songs provide a
scattershot but profoundly emotional soundtrack to a restless and uncertain
world.
John comments: “Making ‘A Model Life’ was very much a lifeline and
indeed wake up call at the end of a particularly personally challenging couple
of years. Creating it made me realise that ultimately, life is impermanent and
the one true thing that gives me a focus and anchor is and has always been
music. Long may that be the case.”
The album will be
available as Limited CD Digipak, Gatefold 2LP+CD & as Digital Album.
Pre-order now here: https://LonelyRobot.lnk.to/AModelLife
The full track-listing
is as follows:
|
1. Recalibrating |
00:05:02 |
|
2. Digital
God Machine |
00:06:08 |
|
3. Species
In Transition |
00:06:19 |
|
4. Starlit
Stardust |
00:05:48 |
|
5. The
Island Of Misfit Toys |
00:04:18 |
|
6. A
Model Life |
00:05:27 |
|
7. Mandalay |
00:01:56 |
|
8. Rain
Kings |
00:06:33 |
|
9. Duty
Of Care |
00:06:24 |
|
10. In
Memoriam |
00:05:53 |
A lone soldier on the
frontlines of creativity, John Mitchell has been at the forefront of
forward-thinking and progressive rock for decades now. As a member of such
revered prog ensembles as It Bites, Arena, Frost* and his own projects Kino and
The Urbane, he has become a uniquely vital contributor to the modern scene,
while his credentials as a producer for countless contemporary rock acts are
unquestionable. But since 2015, John has been operating under name Lonely
Robot: a solo project in all but name, it has enabled him to fully express his
own musical vision, via some of the most vivid and fascinating music of his
career to date.
LONELY ROBOT online:
https://www.facebook.com/LonelyRobotband/
https://twitter.com/LonelyRobot_UK
INSIDEOUTMUSIC online:
www.youtube.com/InsideOutMusicTV