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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. It is Lucassen's first solo album since Pools of Sorrow, Waves of Joy released 18 years ago under the name Anthony, before he reached fame with his progressive metal/rock opera project Ayreon. He sang leading vocals for the first time since the first album, and played most of the 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 twenty-first century man revived in a distant future where everything has changed. According to Lucassen the story is "basically a separate story" but is indirectly related to Ayreon: the cover art includes the Dream Sequencer from Ayreon album Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer and the character of Mr. L already appeared in Ayreon song "The Truth is in Here" (from 01011001). The album also features Golden Globe-winner Dutch 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 played.
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