Description

Dissolution is the highly anticipated follow-up album to 2016s Your Wilderness and is the bands second album to feature King Crimson and Porcupine Tree drummer Gavin Harrison, spurring The Pineapple Thief on as leaders of Europes experimental rock domain. Their efforts on Your Wilderness produced 4m+ album streams, a #7 in the UK Independent Charts and two extensive headline European tours culminating at Londons Islington Assembly Hall where the concert was recorded for the live release Where We Stood.

The new material establishes The Pineapple Thiefs intent to elevate themselves to new heights, with a desire to develop their songwriting and technical capabilities, and with artwork created by iconic design agency Stylorouge, whose previous work includes Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Blur and British film Trainspotting. The album concept tells of the often dark consequences of living in a society in which everything is played out on a public stage, a theme paralleled in the cover art, which was created by glitching the original photographs.

Songwriter Bruce Soord explains In a time when we are supposed to be bound closer together than ever, I have never felt so apart from the world. We are living through a revolution and right now I am not sure its a good one. Lyrically this is the most vivid I have been.

The band recorded Dissolution independently across the UK, including at Gavins Bourne Place studio in London and Bruces Soord Studios in Somerset, sharing their ideas via instant messaging. The mixing was handled by Soord and Harrison and mastering by the bands keyboardist Steve Kitch. The penultimate song White Mist also features experimental guitarist David Torn (David Bowie) providing a bedding of abstract, off-kilter sounds.