Pleasure (Soord/ Renkse) (LP 3834 - 3835)

Bruce Soord with Jonas Renkse  Wisdom of Crowds (CD, KScope Records, 2013) ***  

Bruce Soord  Bruce Soord (CD, KScope Records, 2015) ***  

Genre: Prog rock

Places I remember: HMV, Fopp

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: A Thousand Daggers (Bruce Soord)

Gear costume: Pleasure (Wisdom of Crowds)

They loom large in his legend (The Album Collection playlists): Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5; Part 6

Active compensatory factors: In prog circles both names are well known through their work with The Pineapple Thief and Katatonia respectively (both bands are two of my favourite prog bands - I'll get to The Pineapple Thief when I reach the T's).

Wisdom of Crowds is a collaboration between the two and its combination of electronica and prog has been described as "an album of exquisite melodies and wildly inventive arrangements... this is the sound of two supremely talented artists snatching magic from the ether" (Metal Hammer).

Bruce Soord is his first solo album proper - symbolised by that cover image of him out standing in his field (ha ha). It's a low-key debut as he has decided, quite rightly, not to replicate the sound and approach he has for The Pineapple Thief albums. In summary, it's "less intense and less dramatic than what fans of Pineapple Thief might be accustomed to, but elegant creations with a melancholic, emotional feel to them that should still come across as familiar, especially due to Soord's vocals" (Windhawk).

Where do they all belong? As I say - will get to The Pineapple Thief albums asap (I have a lot of them!)