The Pineapple Thief’s Bruce Soord has released “Meet Me On The Downs,” the second single from his upcoming album, Ghosts In The Park. The video was produced by George Laycock @ Blacktide Productions.
Soord shared: “I wrote this in a hotel room in Hamburg while touring with The Pineapple Thief. The words came later. I remember writing about losing my father while driving to clear out his old retirement flat. ‘The stillness in the car’ as I sat there, looking at the place I only ever knew with him in it. Opening the door to see all his clothes and photographs… ‘A lifetime scattered amongst the clothes’.
“I went back to my studio, intent on creating something positive from the loss. So I shut my eyes and wrote down the earliest memories I could conjure up from my mind, not the messy, difficult ones from his final years. These words formed the second half of the song. So really, it’s just a song about life and cherished memories.”