Bruce Soord<\/a>\u2019s fourth solo album Ghosts In The Park<\/em> finds The Pineapple Thief<\/a> bandleader in a sombre mood, reflecting on losing both his parents. The record explores themes of grief, memory and the places that shape us.<\/p>\n Soord wrote the music in hotel rooms over a two-year period on the road. The transient nature of touring life, he suggests, became inseparable from the emotional tone of the songs themselves.<\/p>\n