It Leads To This

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"It Leads To This" is The Pineapple Thief's 15th studio album, released on February 9th, 2024 on Kscope. The Pineapple Thief revel in opposing force. Muscle and fragility. Chaos and precision. Distorted introspection and warm, dreamlike expanse. Conceived in 1999 by Bruce Soord, the progressive quartet underwent a rebirth in 2017 with the arrival of Gavin Harrison (King Crimson, Porcupine Tree) on drum. Completed by bassist Jon Sykes and keyboardist Steve Kitch, they’ve honed a lean yet lush, quietly timeless sound that soars on It Leads To Thi. The Pineapple Thief had the following to say regarding the new single: “We worked on these new songs for nearly 3 year. It was the most intense time I can remember within The Pineapple Thief. Personally I was being pushed well beyond my known limit, which is great from an artistic perspective but also very very challenging from a personal perspective. Bruce continues: Conceptually ‘It Leads To This’ continues my desire to observe and (try to) make sense of life and the world around me. It’s all there in the lyric. The initial concept for the songs came together very quickly but the final lyrical and musical elements took a huge amount of work to piece together between the four of u, at least to a point where we were all satisfied. After so long in the busine, being ‘satisfied’ is constantly being pushed further, constantly redefined. That’s the thing, we just kept pushing…” To coincide with their formidable return, the band reveal a beautifully shot, compelling video for the first chapter of ‘It Leads To This’ in the form of ‘The Frost’. The video for the new single shot by Jeremy George brings the vibrant landscape of Iceland to life in the post-apocalyptic world pictured on the cover. It all feeds into It Leads To Thi. Comprising eight fat-free epics – all about five minutes long, mixing rock urgency with delicate atmospheric, pensive keys and captivating melodies – it finds Soord looking back and fearing for the world his children will inherit. His lyrics also drew from literature: accounts of Ancient Rome, John Williams’ classic Stoner and epistolary Augustu. All conveyed through Soord’s fragile yet penetrative tenor, nodding to storytellers like Nick Drake, Thom Yorke and Katatonia’s Jonas Renkse. .

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