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FBH: "Lonely Robot" EP Release

On January 21, 2003, Instinct Records released The Lonely Robot EP, a collection of remixes from Future Bible Heroes latest album Eternal Youth, along with two new songs.

The seven song EP includes three remixes of "Losing Your Affection": the 12-inch mix by Soft Cell, the '80 s synth-pop pioneers of "Tainted Love; the "Sunroof Mix" by Mute records founder Daniel Miller (Depeche Mode, Nick Cave, Goldfrapp) and leading producer and engineer Gareth Jones (Depeche Mode, Erasure, Einsturzende Neubauten, Interpol); and the "Client On Demand" mix by the new London based electro duo Client (ex-Dubstar Sarah Blackwood and Kate Holmes, wife of Creation founder Alan McGhee).

NYC based house producer and Francois Kevorkian engineer Rob Rives contributes his version of the song "The World Is A Disco Ball." Rives' other remix credits include Kraftwerk and X-press-2.

"the synth-pop album may be nearly flawless"
—Time Out

"a timeless treat."
—Philadelphia Inquirer

"some of Merritt's finest songwriting."
—CMJ

"inspiring the kind of witty wordplay and memorable melodies that have put him in the running as indie rock's greatest living songwriter."
—Boston Phoenix

"emulates early 80s synthesizer pop so expertly that Eternal Youth could be mistaken for the reissue of some early Depeche Mode sound-alikes"
—Blender

Posted by CG