Lonely Robot, the project masterminded by producer, guitarist and singer/songwriter John Mitchell (Kino, Frost*, Arena, It Bites), are set to release their fourth album ‘Feelings Are Good’ on the 17th July 2020
A powerhouse list of more than two dozen songwriters worked to bring Ain’t Lookin’ Back to life, including Bobby Tomberlin, Paul Overstreet, Tim Nichols
“Since we all locked up, I was thinking about music. I was supposed to be going on tour, but now I can’t do it. For me, music is all about y’all … it’s about playing for people.”
“The song began when a German magazine asked four writers to do essays about the elements and mine was on the air,” Ada recalls
When we set out to write ‘Under My Influence’, we didn’t know exactly what would come out. All we knew was there was one rule. If you felt too vulnerable, if it scared you, then you had to keep going.
A cold sting on her skin / that takes her back / to something she forgot / in childhood,” reads Kathryn Joseph, deeply longing in her delivery of Burnside’s words.
Further isolation collaborations will be revealed soon and the band will also release versions of their own tracks My Swimming Brain, There’s A Reason Why
‘My Brain Is Lit Like An Airport’, is a disquieting, hypnotic rock concoction that alludes to the necessary and inevitable dissolution of ego and the desperate clinging to it in its death throes.
The project can be broken into three chapters. The first being: here’s what I do to numb myself. Get me out of my skin and let me be distracted with love, sex, substances.
‘Banana Skin Shoes’ features fourteen brand new tracks including the political pop of current single ‘Is This A Dream?’ and sees Gough pushing forward yet again both musically and lyrically