THE PINEAPPLE THIEF Announces New Studio Album 'Far And Wide', Shares Video For 'New World Order' Single

Progressive art rockers THE PINEAPPLE THIEF will release their brand new studio album, "Far And Wide", on October 9, 2026 via InsideOut Music. 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 — 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.

"Far And Wide" is the sound of a group with dreamlike complexity at their fingertips, channelling it into hard-hitting, incisive songs.

"We realized, for instance, that you don't need more than two guitar parts at any one time," THE PINEAPPLE THIEF 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 limited 2CD and 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 and 24/48 stereo mixes. The album will also be available as a special edition CD digipak, gatefold LP (in several color variants) and digitally as both stereo and 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.

Founded in 1999 by Bruce Soord, THE PINEAPPLE THIEF 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).

Photo credit: George Laycock