Cornwall-based musician and songwriter Robi Mitch has unveiled a final preview of his upcoming debut album Flat Planet, releasing new single ‘Chasing’ ahead of the record’s arrival next month.
Raised in a commune in central Bristol before later refining his craft as a session guitarist in Taiwan, Mitch launched his solo project in 2020. Since then, he has steadily developed a sound that blends multicultural influences with laid-back indie rock, building into the kind of hazy, exploratory songwriting that has drawn attention from outlets including BBC Introducing.
His debut album Flat Planet, due 5 June 2026 via We Got To 11 (a sub-label of Trapped Animal Records), expands that palette into a loose concept record. Framed as a series of diary entries from a space (and time) traveller, the album moves through themes of departure and return, environmental collapse, ancient mythologies, and imagined future cities.
Following earlier singles ‘Hanging On’ and ‘By Storm’, ‘Chasing’ arrives as the final release before the full album. Leaning into a dreamlike but propulsive sound world, bringing heady influences of indie-funk and psychedelic-rock, the track offers a 70s aesthetic whilst keeping a fresh sense of modernism. Biting guitar tones, boxy beats, shimmering synths, and a bouncing bass groove, builds throughout, like a Jungle-meets-Tame Impala lovechild through its raw, lo-fi production style. Topped with hazy and understated falscetto vocal melodies, the track gradually expands before eventually reaches a psychedelic, swirling guitar solo that carries the track to its finale.
Lyrically, the song is described as exploring distance and longing through a science-fiction lens, specifically the perspective of someone stranded on a remote space station, far from Earth and from whatever (or whoever) they most desire.
Mitch offered an insight into the production approach behind the single, outlining a blend of vintage instrumentation, experimental vocal techniques, and modern studio processing:
“The sounds for this track are influenced by 70s (mellotron, spring reverbs, jangly guitars) and (believe it or not) I was trying to style the arrangements after Serge Gainsbourg on albums like ‘Vu de l’extérieur’. The mix is brought into the present by Ben Satherley-Johnson thanks to a lush coating of verbs and smooth compression… We tracked real life drums with Mike Griffiths in the smallest imaginable room, hiding under blankets, and I used the Brian Eno method of singing/shouting abstract sounds over the music to discover my lyrics and melody.”
‘Chasing’ is out 20th May, ahead of Flat Planet on 5th June. Listen below:
