An Ending

John Mitchell is a guitarist, singer-songwriter and producer known for his work with It Bites, Frost*, Arena and Asia. An Ending, which is the 6th and final chapter of Mitchell's Lonely Robot project, will be released on September 11th, 2026, via White Knight Records, on CD and double vinyl. Mitchell 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. What came back was the Pale Blue Dot, a photograph of Earth from 3.7 billion miles away. A barely visible speck suspended in a ray of light. That image, and everything Sagan wrote about it, is where Lonely Robot was born. 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.