The Pineapple Thief
announce details of ‘Give It Back’
Due for release on
Kscope on 13th May
‘Give It Back’ is an album of newly recorded re-worked classic tracks
from their impressive catalogue now featuring Gavin Harrison
Release
first single “Give It Back” with lyric video (https://youtu.be/ZUx7Lr9QTLM)
Band set to begin the second leg of their ‘Versions Of
The Truth’ European tour on 23rd February
The Pineapple Thief are
one of the leading lights of Europe’s experimental rock domain, led by
post-progressive mastermind Bruce Soord and reinforced by Gavin Harrison (King
Crimson) on drums.
In the lead up to their
extensive forthcoming 2022 European and US tour (23 Feb through to June) in
support of their latest studio album ‘Versions Of The Truth’, The Pineapple
Thief present 'Give It Back' which is due for release on 13th May
through Kscope.
‘Give It Back’ is a new
album featuring 12 new versions of earlier works including songs taken from the
albums ‘Little Man’, ‘All The Wars’, ‘Tightly Unwound’. The band have
completely re-recorded all of the tracks to complement brand new Gavin Harrison
drum parts and new song arrangements. The result of this process is a unique
release of reworked songs which showcases the evolution of The Pineapple Thief.
Bruce Soord explains the idea behind the album “Gavin went through the
entire TPT back catalogue and picked out some songs he felt we could revisit.
As soon as I heard what Gavin was doing, it inspired me to completely rework
the songs too. Gavin would suggest adding new parts, chopping things around,
bringing in extra verses and I was completely open to all of it. I also ‘closed
the story’ lyrically on a lot of the songs which I felt were left too open
ended. It was a lot of fun to do, even if it felt a little strange at times
going back in time.”
Gavin
Harrison comments “When I first started working with The Pineapple Thief I
had only played on the album “Your Wilderness”, so when the time came to play
live, I obviously had to approach quite a few songs I didn’t know and hadn’t
played before. Having spent some years in King Crimson (where this challenge
was often presented to me), Robert Fripp suggested that you should approach
every song as if it were new regardless of when it was written. So with the
blessing of The Pineapple Thief, I developed my own take on some of the earlier
material. As the tours went by, I got curious about their huge back catalogue
and found myself listening through and applying the ‘old song/new song' process
and imagining how I could (sometimes radically) rework them - initially just
for the purposes of finding other songs to play live. However, Bruce encouraged
me to go as far out as I wanted (including writing whole new sections) - after
all, the original already existed - so why not breathe new life into these
earlier songs? This isn’t a compilation album or any kind of selected ‘best of’
record - but rather the tunes that gave me inspiration to rearrange, rework,
rewire.”
The title track from the
album is the first single to be released on 22nd February. Bruce explains“One
of the first songs that Gavin picked out from the back catalogue was Give it
Back. We completely re-recorded and re-worked the entire piece. It feels like a
completely new song and it's already part of our live set.”
(https://youtu.be/ZUx7Lr9QTLM)
The ‘Give It Back’ album
artwork has been created by Carl Glover.
‘Give It Back’ will be
released as a 2 disc CD & Blu-ray (Audio - Hi-res Stereo/DTS-HD MA
5.1/Dolby Atmos), CD, black vinyl LP and digitally and is available to PRE-ORDER HERE (https://TPT.lnk.to/GiveItBack )
‘Give It Back’
Tracklisiting
1. Wretched Soul
(Rewired) [05:26]
2. Dead In The Water
(Rewired) [04:43]
3. Shoot First (Rewired)
[03:43]
4. Build A World
(Rewired) [03:42]
5. Start Your Descent
(Rewired) [04:23]
6. Give It Back
(Rewired) [06:20]
7. Boxing Day (Rewired)
[03:25]
8. Someone Pull Me Out
(Rewired) [04:00]
9. Last Man Standing
(Rewired) [05:15]
10. Little Man (Rewired)
[03:51]
11. 137 (Rewired)
[05:06]
12. Warm Seas (Rewired)
[03:59]
Following a hugely
successful return to European stages at the end of 2021 the band are continuing
with the second leg beginning on February 23rd in Italy and
finishing on 26th March in Helsinki. They will make their highly
anticipated return to North America for 5 weeks of shows beginning in
April.
Fans can check out the
band’s official website for more information on all forthcoming dates, tickets
and VIP upgrades –
www.thepineapplethief.com/tour
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