{"id":16256,"date":"2025-09-25T12:48:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T17:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=16256"},"modified":"2025-09-25T12:48:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T17:48:51","slug":"the-legendary-pink-dots-so-lonely-in-heaven-begin-north-american-tour-today-to-promote-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=16256","title":{"rendered":"THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS : ‘So Lonely In Heaven’ begin North American tour today to promote new album"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Anglo-Dutch experimental rock band The Legendary Pink Dots<\/strong> begin a North American tour today (25th September) in Salt Lake City, UT to promote their current album ‘So Lonely In Heaven\u2019. The full 28 date itinerary and ticket info is available HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Legendary Pink Dots were formed in London in 1980 and are still helmed by co-founder and frontman Edward Ka-Spel. Released in January 2025, \u2018So Lonely In Heaven\u2019 is their second full-length effort since the world stopped for a global pandemic, with the group members still scattered across three countries and two continents as they began writing it. Ideas were spun across cyberspace for months, the magic eventually happening collectively in small spaces with the tape running.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The concept of the album was announced ahead of its release as a 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.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NORTH AMERICAN REVIEWS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u201cThe songs climb from gentle melodies through a whirlwind of lovely and ominous electronics, before landing in experimental ambient territory\u201d<\/em><\/strong>
THE BIG TAKEOVER<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u201cEmbodies the mercurial sensibilities of the band, more impactful when taken in as a complete experience\u201d<\/em><\/strong>
I DIE: YOU DIE (CA)<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u201cProvides an unfurling, enveloping, spacious listen. A fascinating and heady experience, and an intriguing album\u201d<\/em><\/strong>
KITTY SNEEZES (US)<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u201cOne of the strongest albums in the band\u2019s long career, it explores, rocks and grooves, doing everything that a fan could want\u201d<\/em><\/strong>
ReGEN MAGAZINE (US)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EUROPEAN REVIEWS<\/strong><\/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<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u201cVisions of doom wrapped in a beguiling package. A very beautiful record\u201d
<\/em><\/strong>THE QUIETUS
\u201cWith magnificen<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

t subtlety, it’s both terrifying and comforting, sweet and spicy, melancholic but not desperate, timeless yet firmly rooted\u201d
<\/em><\/strong>VERDAMMNIS<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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