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RELEASE         : The.Pineapple.Thief.It.Leads.To.This.2024.COMPLETE.MBLURAY-MIDDLE

DATE            : 2024/03/20

AUDIO           : English / Dolby TrueHD Audio / 7.1 / 48 kHz / 6811 kbps / 24-bit (AC3 Embedded: 5.1-EX / 48 kHz / 640 kbps)
English / DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 4368 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509
kbps / 24-bit)
English / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit

VIDEO           : [1920  |  1080]
SUBS            : [n/a]

GENRE           : Indie
IMDB            : n/a
RATING          : n/a

COMMENT         : The Pineapple Thief revel in opposing forces. 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 drums. 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 This.

The Pineapple Thief had the following to say regarding the new single:

We worked on these new songs for nearly 3 years. It was the most intense time I can remember within
The Pineapple Thief. Personally I was being pushed well beyond my known limits, 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 lyrics.

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 us, at least to a point
where we were all satisfied.  After so long in the business, 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 This. Comprising eight fat-free epics   all about five minutes long, mixing
rock urgency with delicate atmospherics, 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 Augustus. All conveyed through Soord s
fragile yet penetrative tenor, nodding to storytellers like Nick Drake, Thom Yorke and Katatonia s Jonas Renkse.

In a way, that s The Pineapple Thief all over. Idiosyncratic but relatable. Devastating and life-affirming,
in the same breath. Not married to a single genre, just melody served by tones and textures. Music that only
the four of them could make.

It Leads To This
01. Put It Right
02. Rubicon
03. It Leads To This
04. The Frost
05. All Thats Left
06. Now Its Yours
07. Every Trace Of Us
08. To Forget

Y Aqui Estamos
01. All Thats Left (Alt)
02. All Because Of Me (Alt)
03. Put It Right (Alt)
04. Rubicon (Alt)
05. To Forget (Alt)
06. Every Trace Of Us (Alt)
07. The Frost (Alt)