 6th and final album from John Mitchell (It Bites, Frost*, Arena, Asia) project.
Format: CD / Cat No: TMRCDJM0926 / PRE-ORDER Release Date: 11/09/2026
Track Listing: 1. This World Window / 2. Show The Way / 3. Back To The Middle / 4. In Ocean Light / 5. Ad Astra / 6. Where In The World / 7. Twin Suns / 8. The River / 9. Rearview / 10. Bending Light / 11. The Iron Sea / 12. Oblique
More information: Over five albums, Mitchell has followed an astronaut stranded in space, unable to return home. He gazes down at that pale blue dot and asks the kind of questions Sagan spent his life wrestling with. What are we? Why do we behave as we do? What does it mean to be human? The first three Lonely Robot albums looked outward at our species. The fourth and fifth turned the lens inward, as the same frailties the astronaut had observed in humanity, he began to recognise in himself. The grand philosophical questions became something far more personal. The big picture and the individual life are, it turns out, the same thing.
An Ending is where the two threads finally come together. Mitchell always sensed that this would be the conclusion for Lonely Robot, but the astronaut’s journey of discovery and acceptance was an important story to tell.
Mitchell comments, “With this album, I wanted to close the circle of the Lonely Robot universe and bring back some of the elements that inspired the initial writing process. The astronaut has now travelled the full distance. He accepts, at long last, that he will never return home. Although there is grief in that, there is also, finally, peace. I hope Lonely Robot fans find this to be a fitting epilogue to the most creative decade of my life.”
Line-up: John Mitchell - Vocals, guitars, bass guitar, keyboards / Craig Blundell (Frost*, Steve Hackett, Steven Wilson) - Drums / Jez Fielder - Additional Guitar on The River and Rearview
The CD comes shrink-wrapped in a 6-panel digisleeve format with a 16 page booklet.
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