Magnolia is the tenth album from The Pineapple Thief. For a band that started 15 years ago that's a pretty consistent and impressive rate of work - after all so many bands take two or three years between albums whereas The Pineapple Thief average a new album every 18 months. When you think that theMagnolia is the tenth album from The Pineapple Thief. For a band that started 15 years ago that's a pretty consistent and impressive rate of work – after all so many bands take two or three years between albums whereas The Pineapple Thief average a new album every 18 months. When you think that the band tour after a release, and need time to write and then record an album they certainly can't be described as lazy. Okay, so it's a prog album, so some of you are probably expecting a handful of tracks with at least a couple of ridiculously long ones, but in fact you'd be wrong. Instead you get a dozen tracks with the longest being just over 5 minutes long, so the songs are all actually fairly short by Prog standards. The songs are at the rock end of the Prog spectrum – by that I mean it's not the sort of bizarre complex sounds that some hardcore Prog fans love, instead it's music that will appeal to most rock fans as this really does have a good heavy rock sound at it's core. Of course there are plenty of elements to keep Prog fans happy [...]
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