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Release Date Friday 15th May 2026
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.
As founding member & principal songwriter of The Pineapple Thief, Bruce Soord has
spent the last decade steadily refining a voice that balances emotional directness
with musical restraint. 'Ghosts In The Park', his latest solo album, is his most personal
& unguarded work to date: a record shaped by loss, memory, & the quiet spaces that
reveal themselves when life continues to move while everything else appears to stop.
Written over a two-year period while Soord was touring extensively with The Pineapple
Thief, the album emerged in hotel rooms, unfamiliar cities, & moments of enforced
solitude. Against this backdrop, Soord was navigating the drawn- out decline &
eventual death of his father, alongside the continued progression of his mother's
Alzheimer's. These experiences form the emotional spine of 'Ghosts In The Park' -
grief in motion, memory surfacing unpredictably, & the quiet determination to keep
moving forward.
Acoustic guitar sits at the centre of the record, often captured in raw, first- take
performances recorded directly in hotel rooms before being carefully integrated with
studio recordings. This tension between fragility & control defines the album's sound.
Tracks such as "Concepcion," "Meet Me On The Downs," & the title piece were
conceived in specific places - Chile, Hamburg, Oberhausen - each location leaving a
subtle imprint on the music. Parks, harbours, & anonymous rooms become recurring
settings where past & present coexist, intersected by fleeting moments of clarity
amongst the disorder.
Performed almost entirely by Soord himself, with bass contributions from Jon Sykes
on "Kept Me Thinking," the album was recorded using a combination of hotel-room
captures & studio sessions, preserving the immediacy of its origins. Mastered by
Steve Kitch, 'Ghosts In The Park' stands as a stark, reflective & evolutionary
companion piece to Soord's acclaimed previous solo work.
This CD edition of 'Ghosts In The Park' is presented in a 4-panel digipack & includes a
16- page printed booklet with lyrics & original photography from Bruce Soord's
childhood.
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