I\u2019m not sure if the Pineapple Thief have received enough exposure outside of prog-rock circles, but based on Dissolution<\/i>, it is high time more people heard of them.<\/p>\n
Maybe it\u2019s the experience of making 11 albums, or maybe it\u2019s the involvement of Gavin Harrison (one of the current drummers for King Crimson who also has worked with Porcupine Tree), but Dissolution <\/i>is a triumphant album, a somber, dramatic, and powerful piece of neo-prog with none of the trappings associated with the genre.<\/p>\n
Through nine songs and 43 minutes, Bruce Soord (singer\/guitarist) weaves together a dark meditation on social media and prevalent technology, covering how phenomenon that purportedly brings us all together can actually drive us apart and in how being \u201cconnected\u201d is far from actually being connected <\/i>to other people. There\u2019s an indie rock spirit through the disc that is couched in a hard rock sound, one that may draw some expected comparisons to Porcupine Tree but is not afraid to bring a little more drama and gravity.<\/p>\n
There are so many good songs that it\u2019s tough to recommend just one; the harmony vocals and driving rhythms of \u201cFar Below,\u201d the magnetic pull and roiling guitar work of \u201cTry As I Might,\u201d and the catchy \u201cAll That You\u2019ve Got\u201d are all very good. However, the best song bar none is \u201cThreatening War,\u201d which musically follows through on its title with a meditative acoustic opening that blossoms into a destructive ascending riff after about a minute, where the guitars and vocals dramatically come together. This is repeated three times with an extended instrumental break in the middle, and it could well be the best song this band has recorded.<\/p>\n
A short acoustic piece called \u201cPillar Of Salt\u201d leads into the 11-minute climactic \u201cWhite Mist,\u201d which offers some excellent playing (especially Soord\u2019s solo around the seven minute mark) and the same claustrophobic atmosphere as the rest of the disc. If it doesn\u2019t offer a lot of new ideas in the first part of the song, the second half makes up for it with the band firing on all cylinders. Harrison called it \u201cthree songs in one\u201d in a recent interview, and any prog fan knows that this doesn\u2019t necessarily mean all three songs are equally as good. But the ambition is admirable. <\/p>\n
Soord has typically handled the songwriting for the band but Harrison is credited on several of the songs here and seems to have invigorated this band. Dissolution <\/i>is a contender for the band\u2019s best album and is a remarkable piece of work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":33577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[10235],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-45398","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-the-pineapple-thief","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45398"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45398"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}