Press | The Pineapple Thief

Brit rock’s strange fruits step up.
From it’s Storm Thorgerson artwork to the blaring clarity of main man Bruce Soord’s crisp production job, Someone Here Is Missing is every inch the consummate modern progressive indie rock album. Fans of Porcupine Tree and Radiohead that have yet to discover Soord and his band are advised to get up to date quickly, because this is also the moment when The Pineapple Thief outgrow all such comparisons and start to punch at the same weight as their more commercially successful forebears. Songs like the pulsating Wake Up The Dead, which comes replete with brooding Nine Inch Nails-style electronics, and the lilting menace of the title track, tap into a very British sense of disenchantment and pathos that can be traced back to Pink Floyd, but in contrast to their peers, Soord and co seem content with the limitations of a four-piece guitar band and do most of their experimenting within that seemingly restrictive framework. The results, from the skittering electro-psych of Nothing At Best to the oddly moving So We Row are extremely classy and frequently mesmerising.
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Dom Lawson