{"id":26344,"date":"2025-01-30T13:28:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T13:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=26344"},"modified":"2025-01-30T13:28:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T13:28:38","slug":"the-legendary-pink-dots-so-lonely-in-heaven-experimental-rock-band-on-european-tour-now-to-promote-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2025\/01\/30\/the-legendary-pink-dots-so-lonely-in-heaven-experimental-rock-band-on-european-tour-now-to-promote-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS : ‘So Lonely In Heaven’ experimental rock band on European tour now to promote new album"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

new album
2xLP | CD | digital
out now
(Metropolis Records)

Bandcamp<\/a>  |  stream<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBecomes increasingly and pleasingly weirder as it begins to reveal itself. They remain a gloriously difficult proposition to pin down\u201d<\/em><\/strong>
PROG
\u201cVisions of doom wrapped in a beguiling package. A very beautiful record\u201d<\/em><\/strong>
THE QUIETUS
\u201cRetains enough new age ambient electro folk charm to keep their devoted global army of fans happy\u201d<\/em><\/strong>
VIVE LE ROCK
\u201cHigh-quality songs with atmospheric guitars, weird samples, a driven sequence\/rhythm section and an instantly recognisable voice”
<\/em><\/strong>VITAL WEEKLY (NL)
\u201cWith magnificent subtlety, it’s both terrifying and comforting, sweet and spicy, melancholic but not desperate, timeless yet firmly rooted\u201d<\/em><\/strong>
VERDAMMNIS (FR)
\u201cHas a grand theatricality, like a soundtrack to a dystopian opera where the characters have long since accepted their fate\u201d<\/em><\/strong>
CHAIN D.L.K. (US)

includes
BLOOD MONEY
<\/em>video<\/a><\/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.

The Legendary Pink Dots have just started a European tour to promote ‘So Lonely In Heaven\u2019. Dates and ticket information can be found HERE<\/a>.



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.

\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


THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS<\/strong> | illustration by Simon Paul<\/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 HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS photo by 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

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