{"product_id":"lonely-robot-an-ending-2lp-new-artist-pre-order","title":"Lonely Robot \"An Ending\" Translucent Sky Blue\/Violet 2LP (NEW ARTIST \u0026 PRE-ORDER)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLonely Robot - An Ending \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e(\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTransparent Sky Blue \u0026amp; Violet 2LP)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003ePLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A PRE-ORDER ITEM. WE ONLY SHIP ORDERS WHEN COMPLETE. IN ORDER TO AVOID SHIPPING DELAY OF OTHER ITEMS, PLEASE ORDER SEPARATELY. THANK YOU!!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis limited double vinyl edition of \u003cem\u003eAn Ending\u003c\/em\u003e come with a bonus track entitled\u003cem\u003e Synthetic \u003c\/em\u003ewhich is exclusive to this product. It comes in a twin-colour format with disc one being in Trans Sky Blue and disc two in Trans Violet. The full colour lyric sheet comes signed by John Mitchell.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"BodyA\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eJohn Mitchell, guitarist, singer-songwriter and producer known for his work with It Bites, Frost*, Arena and Asia, has announced the final Lonely Robot album.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn Ending\u003c\/i\u003e will be released on September 11, 2026.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"BodyA\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eMitchell began Lonely Robot, inspired by a single image: Carl Sagan requesting that the cameras on Voyager 2 be turned around before the probe left our solar system forever.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eWhat came back was the Pale Blue Dot, a photograph of Earth from 3.7 billion miles away.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eA barely visible speck suspended in a ray of light.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eThat image, and everything Sagan wrote about it, is where Lonely Robot was born.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"BodyA\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eOver five albums, Mitchell has followed an astronaut stranded in space, unable to return home.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eHe gazes down at that pale blue dot and asks the kind of questions Sagan spent his life wrestling with.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eWhat are we?\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eWhy do we behave as we do?\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eWhat does it mean to be human?\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eThe 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 recognize in himself.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eThe grand philosophical questions became something far more personal.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eThe big picture and the individual life are, it turns out, the same thing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"BodyA\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eAn Ending\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003e is where the two threads finally come together.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eMitchell 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"BodyA\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eMitchell 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.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"BodyA\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eThe astronaut has now travelled the full distance.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eHe accepts, at long last, that he will never return home.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eAlthough there is grief in that, there is also, finally, peace.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"BodyA\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eMitchell concludes, “I hope Lonely Robot fans find this to be a fitting epilogue to the most creative decade of my life.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"BodyA\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"\u003eMusicians:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"BodyA\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eJohn Mitchell - Vocals, guitars, bass guitar, keyboards.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"BodyA\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eCraig Blundell (Frost*, Steve Hackett, Steven Wilson) - Drums\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"BodyA\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eJez Fielder - Additional Guitar on The River and Rearview\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"BodyA\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eAll songs written, recorded, produced, mixed and mastered by John Mitchell, except The River and Rearview written by John Mitchell and Jez Fielder.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"BodyA\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eBonus track Synthetic written by Tim McEwan and Tyler Lyle (The Midnight).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"BodyA\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eArtwork by Graeme Purdy Bell - Planet Twig\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003eCheck it out:\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Mn-zCp5QjdY\"\u003eLONELY ROBOT - World Window (OFFICIAL VIDEO) From the new album AN ENDING, out September 11th, 2026\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003eTracks:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"BodyA\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eThis World Window\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"BodyA\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eShow The Way\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"BodyA\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eBack To The Middle\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"BodyA\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eIn Ocean Light\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"BodyA\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eAd Astra\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"BodyA\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eWhere In The World\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"BodyA\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eTwin Suns\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"BodyA\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eThe River\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"BodyA\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eRearview\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"BodyA\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eBending Light\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"BodyA\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eThe Iron Sea\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"BodyA\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eOblique (Bonus track - vinyl only)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"BodyA\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eSynthetic (Bonus track - vinyl only)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eFormat: Transparent Sky Blue\/Violet 2LP\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eArtist: Lonely Robot\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eRelease Date: September 11, 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lonely Robot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46744947032236,"sku":null,"price":73.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0407\/5857\/5258\/files\/LonelyRobotAnEndingvCover3644px.jpg?v=1783554479","url":"https:\/\/thebandwagonusa.com\/en-nz\/products\/lonely-robot-an-ending-2lp-new-artist-pre-order","provider":"The Band Wagon USA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}