Jon Sykes

Ce live excellemment enregistré et qui résume parfaitement les 3 derniers opus. Les morceaux s’enchainent avec un grand professionnalisme et aucune esbroufe, juste la musique et cela est magique de force et de simplicité. Devant un public anglais calme acquis à la cause d’un groupe (peut être trop) confidentiel. Le tout est très électrique et ça cogne souvent fort mais les passages acoustiques sont bien présents.

Progressive Art Rock luminaries The Pineapple Thief return with new album ‘It Leads To This’. 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 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. Comprising eight fat-free epics – 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.

Mené par Bruce Soord et renforcé par le légendaire Gavin Harrison à la batterie, Nothing But The Truth capture The Pineapple Thief dans ses meilleures chansons de son illustre catalogue (y compris pour la première fois en direct, des titres de Versions Of The Truth).

The acclaimed 2016 hit album from The Pineapple Thief with bonus tracks. For the first time, TPT brought in several guest performers for Your Wilderness, alongside Gavin Harrison: a four-piece choir, Geoffrey Richardson (Caravan), who arranged and recorded string sections, Darran Charles (Godsticks) contributed additional electric guitar work, and Supertramp’s John Helliwell performed some beautiful clarinet parts that bring the album to a poignant close. In 5.1 surround, from the Where We Stood Blu-Ray.