The Pineapple Thief: Your Wilderness (released 12 August 2016)

01 In Exile (5:10)
02 No Man's Land (4:17)
03 Tear You Up (4:51)
04 That Shore (4:52)
05 Take Your Shot (4:33)
06 Fend for Yourself (3:43)
07 The Final Thing on My Mind (9:53)

08 Where We Stood (3:45)

The Pineapple Thief are a British progressive rock band, started by Bruce Soord
in 1999 in Somerset, England. Soord states that he and his girlfriend (now wife) were watching an American indie film called ‘Eve’s Bayou’, and there was a scene wherein a girl steals a pineapple. Someone shouts out “I can see you, pineapple thief!”, and (admittedly after a few too many glasses of cheap wine) Soord decided to name his project The Pineapple Thief. 10 increasingly successful albums later, the band released ‘Your Wilderness’ in 2016. The album features guest musicians including Gavin Harrison (Porcupine Tree, King Crimson), John Helliwell (Supertramp), and Geoffrey Richardson (Caravan).

The music of Your Wilderness carries the themes of isolation in a vast, empty space from its slow-build opener “In Exile” all the way to its pensive closer “Where We Stood”. There are some heavy moments throughout, including a galloping riff in the middle of “Tear You Up”, but on the whole Your Wilderness is a hushed and brooding – but excellent – affair from the Pineapple Thief. The echoey “That Shore” sums up the ethos of the record with its sparse piano notes and Soord’s lamentations: “Your face is leaving me.”