“I blame The Pineapple Thief!”
Bruce Soord is late. Approximately three years late. Some time after the release of his self-titled debut in the autumn of 2015 and this year’s All This Will Be Yours, Soord had promised the Kscope label a second solo album.
“I just wanted the cash,” he laughs. “I did remember thinking, ‘Shit, I’d better get this album finished because the label paid me for it years ago.’ I was very late and I’d spent all the money as well! Luckily, they didn’t send the men in suits down to find me, not that I imagine Kscope have many men in suits…”
Soord is home in Yeovil after what must have felt like a life-changing 12 months or so: a new and unexpected baby, an Indian summer of success for his band The Pineapple Thief, and a new solo album to promote too. Soord, for all the brooding melancholia in his music, not least his latest record, is a charming, occasionally chirpy interviewee, landed happily in life, even among the chaos of a new baby and a band on the rise,
