Pineapple Thief Magnolia

2014, With wonderfully fiery but elegant performances from Bruce, drummer Dan Osborne, bassist Jon Sykes and keyboard maestro Steve Kitch, plus sumptuous string arrangements courtesy of regular Thief collaborator Andrew Skeet and an immaculate final mix provided by engineer Adam Noble, MAGNOLIA represents the best of everything that The Pineapple Thief have achieved to date. It is also the band's most emotionally diverse and powerful album, with songs that harness the bewildering highs and lows that modern life hurls at us with alarming frequency and turns them into stirring, exquisitely truthful anthems that will surely resonate with everyone who hears them. Perhaps most powerful of all, the album's glorious title track sums up that remarkable combination of lyrical reality and musical strength with heart-rending precision. MAGNOLIA is an album that arrives meticulously constructed to stand the test of time and to cement this band's reputation as a truly cherishable one-off.