Lost in the New Real

Lost in the New Real
Cover art by Claudio Bergamin
Studio album by Arjen Anthony Lucassen
Released	23 April 2012 (Europe) 8 May 2012 (United States)[1]
Genre	Progressive rock psychedelic rock progressive metal
Length	90:20
Label	Inside Out Music Century Media Records
Producer	Arjen Anthony Lucassen
Arjen Anthony Lucassen chronology
Pools of Sorrow, Waves of Joy (1994) Lost in the New Real (2012)
Arjen Anthony Lucassen's projects chronology
Victims of the Modern Age (2010) Lost in the New Real (2012) The Theory of Everything (2013)

Lost in the New Real (also referred to as Arjen Anthony Lucassen's Lost in the New Real) is the second solo studio album by Dutch songwriter, producer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist Arjen Anthony Lucassen, released on 23 April 2012. It is Lucassen's first solo album since 1993's Pools of Sorrow, Waves of Joy, released 18 years earlier under the name Anthony, before he reached fame with his progressive metal/rock opera project Ayreon. Lucassen wrote all the songs, sings lead vocals and performs most instruments himself, including all guitars, bass and keyboards.

As with Ayreon, it is a concept album. It follows the story of Mr. L (voiced by Lucassen), a modern-day man revived in a distant future where everything has changed. Although the story is not a part of the Ayreon storyline, it is set within the same fictional universe: the character of Mr. L had previously appeared in the song "The Truth is in Here" from 01011001, while the cover art includes the Dream Sequencer from the Ayreon album Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer.^[1] The album also prominently features spoken vocals performed by actor Rutger Hauer as Mr. L's appointed psychological advisor, Voight-Kampff, in reference to the eponymous fictional polygraph-like device in Blade Runner, in which Hauer starred.^[2]

Music videos were released for "Pink Beatles in a Purple Zeppelin" and "E-police". Lucassen also released a music video for "Lost in the New Real", which also acts practically as an introduction to the album.