{"id":26171,"date":"2025-01-11T23:31:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T23:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=26171"},"modified":"2025-01-11T23:36:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T23:36:01","slug":"the-legendary-pink-dots-blood-money-video-for-song-from-so-lonely-in-heaven-new-album-by-experimental-rock-band-out-17th-january-2025-metropolis-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2025\/01\/11\/the-legendary-pink-dots-blood-money-video-for-song-from-so-lonely-in-heaven-new-album-by-experimental-rock-band-out-17th-january-2025-metropolis-records\/","title":{"rendered":"THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS : ‘Blood Money’ – video for song from ‘So Lonely In Heaven’ new album by experimental rock band out 17th January 2025 (Metropolis Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

new album
2xLP | CD | digital
out 17th January 2025
(Metropolis Records)

Bandcamp pre-order<\/a>

early UK reviews
\u201cSurreal, startling and absorbing, they\u2019ve produced an album which stands as a career best. Legendary, indeed\u201d
<\/em><\/strong>THE MIDLANDS ROCKS
\u201cThere are many wonderful moments hiding in the shadows of every track. This album begs repeated plays to fully discover all of them\u201d
<\/em><\/strong>OUTSIDELEFT
\u201cMellow, almost poppy, slightly psychedelic space rock. It is all very easy on the ear, almost crisp, clean-cut, likeable future-pop maybe?\u201d
<\/em><\/strong>THE ORGAN

includes
BLOOD MONEY
<\/em>video<\/a>
\u201cDriving, psychedelic-pop, the pumping electronics blend perfectly with the wonderful guitar work\u201d<\/em><\/strong>
HANDWRITTEN MAG<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS<\/strong> | Blood Money<\/em> video

\u201cWay way back in the early days I used to say a lot about ‘The Terminal Kaleidoscope\u2019, 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\u2026.\u201d
<\/em>Edward Ka-Spel – The Legendary Pink Dots<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SO LONELY IN HEAVEN<\/em> – THE CREATION
‘So Lonely in Heaven’ is the new album by the Anglo-Dutch experimental rock band The Legendary Pink Dots<\/strong>, who formed in London in 1980 and are still helmed by co-founder and frontman Edward Ka-Spel. Their second full-length effort since the World stopped for a Global Pandemic, group members were still scattered across three countries and two continents as they began writing it, with ideas spun across Cyberspace for months. However, the magic eventually happened collectively in small spaces with the tape running.

SO LONELY IN HEAVEN<\/em> – 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\u2026.

 SO LONELY IN HEAVEN<\/em>
TRACKLISTING
1  So Lonely In Heaven
2  The Sound Of The Bell
3  Dr. Bliss
4  Sleight Of Hand
5  Choose Premium : First Prize
6  Darkest Knight
7  Cold Comfort
8  Wired High : Too Far To Fall
9  How Many Fingers In The Fog
10  Blood Money : Transitional
11  Pass The Accident
12  Everything Under The Moon

The Legendary Pink Dots will be promoting \u2019So Lonely In Heaven\u2019 with a European tour commencing on 29th January 2025. Dates and ticket information can be found HERE<\/a>.


THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS<\/strong> : Edward Ka-Spel  |  Erik Drost  |  Randall Frazier  |  Joep Hendrikx 

THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS<\/strong>
brief biography
The music made by The Legendary Pink Dots has incorporated elements of neo-psychedelia, ambient music, electronic music, tape music, psychedelic folk, synthpop, post-punk, progressive jazz, noise music, pop music, goth rock and alternative rock\u2026.occasionally all at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Often likened to an industrial version of Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd, it was actually early David Bowie, The Residents, Can, Faust and musique concrete composers such as Pierre Henry who were far bigger influences on the Dots when they started out. Indeed, the lengthy fever dream-like sonic expeditions that litter the band\u2019s catalogue have often received the greatest praise.

AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW
\u201cFor those unfamiliar with The Legendary Pink Dots (where have you been all these years?), think a mixture of ‘In Search Of Space’ era Hawkwind and ‘Piper At The Gates Of Dawn’ era Pink Floyd, only with the ability to utilise modern technology\u201d<\/em>
THE MIDLANDS ROCKS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The group currently comprises Edward Ka-Spel (vocals, keyboards, songwriter), Erik Drost (guitars), Randall Frazier (keyboards, electronics) and Joep Hendrikx (live electronics). Operating outside the mainstream, their discography consists of 40+ studio albums and they have amassed a devoted following worldwide, touring frequently to promote their releases.

Ka-Spel is also a co-founding member of electronic duo The Tear Garden (with cEvin Key of Skinny Puppy) and released an acclaimed collaborative album with Amanda Palmer in 2017. Palmer has often cited The Legendary Pink Dots as being her favourite band.

The majority of the band\u2019s extensive back catalogue, as well as Ka-Spel\u2019s solo work and recordings with the likes of Steve Stapleton (Nurse With Wound), Amanda Palmer and The Tear Garden can be purchased via Bandcamp\u00a0HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS | photo: Michael McGrath

THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS
<\/strong>(left to right above)
Erik Drost – acoustic and electric guitars, bass guitar
Randall Frazier – synthesisers, devices
Edward Ka-Spel – voice, devices
Joep Hendrikx – live electronics, devices<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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