Sink Into Timelessness With Escapism From Legendary Pink Dots And So Lonely In Heaven

Legendary Pink Dots 
So Lonely In Heaven 
Metropolis Records 
 
Fully aware of the huge issues that make life miserable for millions around the globe and with a desire to medicate and mediate through sound adventures, The Legendary Pink Dots return to Metropolis Records with So Lonely In Heaven. A new album is always a good thing and their fans are already thrilled with the four tracks so-far released from the record, which includes the title track So Lonely In Heaven. Formed way back in 1980 between English and Dutch musicians, Legendary Pink Dots are a casual forerunner in many overlapping genres. Their surrealist album cover ties them to the hippy scene while their magnificent musicianship and studio mastery give them a generous dose of larger than life. A concept song, So Lonely In Heaven offers the scenario where eternity is actualised and fulfilled and all you can do is repeat yourself endlessly. I guess for the whole thing to be appealing we’d need to become much more than what we currently are, and able to imagine, manifest, and design in infinitely more dimensions of awareness. Being able to create as well as this band would be a step in the right direction, so maybe they know something we don’t?  
 
A computer sound and Tannoy voice opens the music with a retro-sci-fi feel. Acoustic guitars enter on a chilled vibe, bumped with reverb and chorus, the sound fills spaces and angles that exceed the box. A folky vocal begins, the steel strings of the guitars and the tippy tap of the drum lends an archaic atmosphere as stunning effects offer granular modernity among the flow of the mix. Keyboards rise with chimes; ghostly bells vibrate in tonal harmony to the dream. As something changes, the plug is pulled, and a nightmare edge is invited in. Something gives space for the discordancy and allows it to breathe. In doing so, beautiful harmonies rise from the wake of the shade, slipstreams of shadow fold to reveal a deeper light within.  

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