COME TOGETHER

A quarter-of-a-century ago Bruce Soord founded The Pineapple Thief as a creative outlet for himself. Originally intended as a solo project, it soon grew beyond his expectations and the quartet’s latest album, It Leads To This, finds them switching things up even further. Prog catches up with Soord, drummer Gavin Harrison and bassist Jon Sykes to discuss their current release and find out why its creation turned out to be such a cathartic experience.

Rich Wilson

There’s a slight air of world weariness about The Pineapple Thief. The band have been in Gavin Harrison’s studio, rehearsing for their upcoming tour to support their new album, It Leads To This, and there’s the sense that it’s been an elongated, potentially mildly frustrating day of missed cues and occasional bum notes. “Gavin doesn’t sugar-coat anything,” reveals frontman Bruce Soord, referencing the band’s drummer with a knowing smile. “So we’re in the studio now, we play a song, record it and gather around the speakers and listen back to it. The first time you play it through, it’s quite brutal. We have this dynamic in the band where we have an ordered section and a chaos section, but I’m not going to tell you where the chaos section is.…

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