Progressive Art Rockers The Pineapple Thief are excited to announce their brand new studio album “Far and Wide” will be released via InsideOut Music on October 09, 2026. On this latest record, The Pineapple Thief feel more like a rock band than ever. Still Progressive. Still masters of spine-tingling atmosphere. Still attuned to the strange, troubled world around us. And now, a decade and seven albums on from the arrival of Gavin Harrison on drums — and newly signed to InsideOut Music — they capture the chemistry, road miles and bigger stages of the last few years.
Coinciding with this announcement is the launch of the hard-hitting single “New World Order,” complete with a striking video by longtime collaborator George Laycock at Black Tide Productions. Watch the video via the YouTube player below:
“Far and Wide” is the sound of a group with dreamlike complexity at their fingertips, channelling it into hard-hitting, incisive songs.
“We realised, for instance, that you don’t need more than two guitar parts at any one time,” frontman/founder Bruce Soord says. “You know, ’why have we got four or five guitars? Why have we got six-part harmonies when there’s only three of us singing?’ We deliberately created those constraints, because we thought, ‘we’re a rock band, there’s five of us on stage, this is what we should be about in the studio.’”
“You do start to imagine what a song would look like on a stage, and sometimes that does influence the arrangement,” Harrison adds. “Like, ‘this would be amazing live when we do this, if this section just went into this other thing’, and you can picture it with the lights and the atmosphere on stage.”
It’s a fitting mindset for Far And Wide’s powerful, immersive track-list. You’ll find vignettes of a society in turmoil here. Moral courage in the face of adversity. Personal loss and its ripples. Points that intensify the foundations laid by 2024’s “It Leads To This,” in which the band contemplated all that the next generation stood to inherit.
“Far and Wide” will arrive on several formats, including a Ltd 2xCD & Blu-ray artbook which includes the bonus track “Daylight,” as well as a second CD of instrumentals and a blu-ray featuring Dolby Atmos, DTS-HD 5.1 Surround Sound & 24/48 Stereo Mixes. The album will also be available as a Special Edition CD Digipak, Gatefold LP (in several colour variants) & digitally as both stereo & Dolby Atmos. All formats feature the striking cover image of an abstract sculpture by the late Michael Schoenholtz, father of Harrison’s longtime partner Hannah.
Pre-Order “Far And Wide” here: https://thepineapplethief.lnk.to/FarAndWide-Album
Founded in 1999 by Bruce Soord, the band has long been one of the genre’s most successful and accomplished outfits, releasing 16 studio albums and touring worldwide. The band consisting of Soord (vocals, guitars), Jon Sykes (bass), Steve Kitch (keyboards), and Gavin Harrison (drums).
The Pineapple Thief recently announced the following festival shows in Europe:
June 25th Istanbul TK – Zorlu PSM – with The Gathering
June 27th Cornwall GB – Morvala Festival of Arts
July 3rd Joensuu FIN – Ilovaari Festival
July 4th Helsinki FIN – CoolHead Live
July 16th Bronnoysund NO – Rootsfestivalen
Aug. 2nd Manchester GB – Radar Festival
Now, the band is revealing headline tour dates across North America. Tickets go on sale Friday, April 17th at 10am local time.
Nov. 17th Washington DC – Howard Theater
Nov. 19th Philadelphia PA – Theatre of Living Arts
Nov. 20th New York City NY – Gramercy Theatre
Nov. 21st Somerville MA – Somerville Theater
Nov. 22nd Quebec City QC – Capitole
Nov. 24th Montreal QC – Beanfield Theatre
Nov. 25th Toronto ON – Danforth Music Hall
Nov. 27th Chicago IL – House of Blues
Nov. 28th Cleveland OH – House of Blues
Nov. 29th St. Louis MO – Delmar Hall
Dec. 1st Dallas TX – The Bomb Factory
Dec. 3rd Denver CO – Summit
Dec. 5th Phoenix AZ – Crescent Ballroom
Dec. 6th San Diego CA – The Observatory North Park
Dec. 8th Los Angeles CA – The Bellwether
Dec. 9th San Francisco CA – August Hall
Dec. 11th Seattle WA – Neptune Theater
Dec. 12th Portland OR – Revolution Hall
Dec. 13th Vancouver BC – Hollywood Theater
More news to come…