The Pineapple Thief have spent much of the last 25 years caught between a rock and a hard place: too proggy for the rock crowd, too rocky for the prog crowd. Despite that, frontman and creative engine Bruce Soord has quietly built up an impressive body of work, somewhere between the Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead and fellow square pegs Porcupine Tree.
How Did We Find Our Way charts the first chapter of their career, bringing together their first five albums and two bonus EPs and plus odds and sodas, some of which was recorded when The Pineapple Thief were still Soord’s one-man project rather than an actual band. Originally released via influential UK underground label Cyclops, here they’re repackaged across eight CDs in a vinyl-sized box set whose stylish design subtly signals ‘art rock’ rather than ‘prog’.
