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“We were all pushing each other. We all had ideas as to where it should go. It was an intense time”: The Pineapple Thief asked how the world went off-script with It Leads To This

Order, chaos, abandoned comfort zones and healthy tension arose as Bruce Soord and Gavin Harrison took the lead with the band’s 14th album – which left Soord feeling like it was only their fourth

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“You might think, ‘Is he so wrapped up in the problems of being human? is this who he is all day?’ It’s not!” Why the happy, positive Bruce Soord writes sad, melancholy solo albums

Ghosts In The Park contains songs he’d never take to The Pineapple Thief, or talk about in coffee shops. He explains how he found the collection of stories in hotel rooms

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“I was obsessed with him at school – it didn’t help with the girls! Because of him I got my first guitar, so he’s got a lot to answer for”: The prog hero who links The Pineapple Thief’s Bruce Soord to Pink Floyd and The Beatles

Soord’s inspiration comes from a man who made his name in the studio before releasing a series of acclaimed concept records in his own right

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Jethro Tull announce newly expanded and remixed reissue of their 1999 album J-Tull Dot Com

New three-CD and Blu-ray release J-Tull Dot Com: Another Cast Of The Net will be available in August

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“I’d wake up, have no memory of it, then play it back – and funnily enough it worked”: The Pineapple Thief’s Bruce Soord drank to forget his new songs as he wrote them

His fourth solo album Ghosts In The Park explores emotions that followed the loss of both his parents

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The story of Genesis and A Trick Of The Tail is on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!

Plus Hawkwind, Clannad, Devin Townsend, Ed O'Brien, Bruce Soord, The Claypool Lennon Delirium, Crown Lands, Midge Ure, Yes and loads more...

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“If I’d put a live act together we’d have conquered the world. But it was a fear I had – what does a record producer do onstage? It was unfounded. We should have done it”: Studio veteran reveals big regret to a fan who’s now a big name himself

The Pink Floyd collaborator thought his career would last two years. But in the past five decades he’s had surprise hits, overreacted to a myth about tape, and made colleagues believe his ideas had been their own

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The Pineapple Thief's early years on Kscope celebrated with new box set

The eight-disc The Pineapple Thief anthology Retracing Our Steps will be released in December

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The Pineapple Thief announce 20th anniversary vinyl reissue of fourth album 10 Stories Down

The Pineapple Thief's fourth studio album, 10 Stories Down, will be remastered and reissued on coloured vinyl in October

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“I felt the stage fright because the band just wasn’t good enough. I said, ‘This will be our last record.’ Then things began to take off”: Even lockdown couldn’t dampen The Pineapple Thief’s spirits when they released Versions Of The Truth

It may have been the 13th album by Bruce Soord’s band, but he regarded is as their third, after drummer Gavin Harrison’s arrival changed everything

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“I thought you really had to work to make a song great. That’s actually a load of crap – the best songs I’ve written took 10 minutes”: When The Pineapple Thief began to break through with Someone Here Is Missing

Just before their eighth album arrived, Bruce Soord reflected on remixing his back catalogue, learning to keep a distance from fans and the validity of comparisons with Porcupine Tree

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“Is this a feel-bad experience? There’s something freeing about giving voice to these emotions”: Bruce Soord’s 10th anniversary edition of his self-titled debut solo album

New vinyl version proves that songs he writes outside The Pineapple Thief’s domain still deserve to be heard

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“It’s overwhelming – you wanna go on, you wanna live off the music, but maybe not everyone in the band can do that”: Katatonia ended a phase of doubt and gave shape to their Dead End King on 11th album City Burials

Jonas Renske didn’t stop writing when the dark Swedish troupe went on hiatus – which made it all the shorter

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Bruce Soord details 10th anniversary edition of debut solo album

The Pineapple Thief leader Bruce Soord’s self-titled solo album will be reissued in vinyl to mark its 10th anniversary in May

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“From here I drew a line to Pink Floyd and painted my room black … who knows where I’d be now if I’d never heard them?” Mikael Åkerfeldt, Bruce Soord and others pick their favourite Camel albums

Five prog musicians explain the lasting impact of Andy Latimer’s band

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Jethro Tull share new 2024 remix of Jack Frost And The Hooded Crow

A five-disc The Jethro Tull Christmas Album – Fresh Snow At Christmas will be released in December

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Jethro Tull announce expanded and remixed version of The Jethro Tull Christmas Album

The five-disc The Jethro Tull Christmas Album – Fresh Snow At Christmas will be released in December

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“The way he uses all his drum kit; no one else really sounds like that." How Gavin Harrison's arrival inspired The Pineapple Thief's Dissolution

The Pineapple Thief are back with album number 12, one that perfectly encapsulates their style. Bruce Soord and Gavin Harrison talk dark lyrics, ‘cyber jamming’ and battling demons…

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“I’ve learned to completely let go and say, ‘That’s different… but let’s go with it!’” The Pineapple Thief are one of UK prog’s leading lights – Bruce Soord explains how they crossed the Rubicon with Porcupine Tree’s drummer

It Leads to This finds Soord and company working in weird time signatures and towards the point of mental exhaustion in search of new sounds

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“Nobody cares if someone says ‘I don’t like that sound’ or ‘Actually play it right next time!’ That last one generally only comes my way”: The Pineapple Thief aimed to escape their comfort zone, and it worked

Latest album It Leads To This is the 15th studio album from Bruce Soord’s band – but he argues it’s really only their fourth, and that it hides a positive message

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"If you just stay in your comfort zone all the time, you keep writing the same type of songs over and over again": The Pineapple Thief are rejuvenated, regenerated and on a roll

The PineappleThief almost called it quits back in 2016, but with founder Bruce Soord bringing in creative partner Gavin Harrison it's like a whole new band

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“I felt like a zombie… I don’t think I’ve ever put myself through that kind of intense collaborative experience before”: Bruce Soord pushed himself hard to deliver The Pineapple Thief’s It Leads To This

2024 album marks the first time band leader and drummer Gavin Harrison created music together in the same room

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“Grooves that are musically optimistic, but lyrically pessimistic… touches of nuance, beauty and snarl make their turmoil worth it”: The Pineapple Thief’s It Leads To This

Modern prog mainstays return with a sombre yet impressive album that cements the advances they’ve made since Gavin Harrison joined the band

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"The results rock with dynamic, dramatic vigour": The Pineapple Thief turn to concise structures on It Leads To This

Prog-leaning art rockers The Pineapple Thief self-edit in style on punchy 15th album It Leads To This

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New prog music you have to hear from The Pineapple Thief, The Utopia Strong, The C Sides Project and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week

Great new prog music to check out from North Sea Echoes, A Burial St Sea, 25 Yard Screamer, Sometime In February and more...

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