''Pilgrims Progress'' is the fourth studio album by

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and was released on 28 June 2010. The first single to be taken from the album was "Peter Pan R.I.P", which was made available to download as an

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from the band's website on 22 April 2010. A three-track "Peter Pan R.I.P" EP was later made available on the

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on 18 June 2010. The album's title is a deliberate misspelling of

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's story, ''

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''. ''Pilgrims Progress'' was released in three different versions: a standard twelve-track album; a limited edition deluxe box set, with a bonus CD of unreleased songs and demos; and a super deluxe box set, featuring the regular deluxe package, along with a vinyl LP of the album and a T-shirt. The super deluxe edition is limited to 300 copies and is signed by the cover artist Chris Hopewell. The CD album artwork for the standard twelve-track album erroneously lists three bonus tracks that do not actually appear on the album.

Track listing

All music composed by

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/ Alonza Bevan. #"Peter Pan R.I.P" – 3:33 #"Ophelia" – 3:07 #"Modern Blues" – 3:46 #"Only Love" – 3:12 #"All Dressed Up (and Ready to Fall in Love)" – 3:30 #"Cavalry" – 2:02 #"Ruby" – 3:06 #"Figure It Out" – 3:32 #"Barbara Ella" – 3:44 #"When a Brave Needs a Maid" – 2:42 #"To Wait Till I Come" – 2:57 #"Winter's Call" – 6:29

Deluxe edition bonus CD: Lost and Proud

#"Intro" – 0:32 #"Sister Breeze" – 3:06 #"High in a Heaven" – 4:12 #"Space Caravan" – 2:52 #"Let It In"

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– 3:53 #"Light Years Ahead of Our Time"

– 3:22 #"The Phantom" – 2:38 #"Witches & Wine"

– 2:46 #"Sweet Sympathy" – 3:14 #"Peter Pan R.I.P"

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Japanese Version

#"Peter Pan R.I.P" – 3:33 #"Figure It Out" – 3:32 #"Ophelia" – 3:07 #"Modern Blues" – 3:46 #"All Dressed Up (and Ready to Fall in Love)" – 3:30 #"Ruby" – 3:06 #"Only Love" – 3:12 #"Barbara Ella" – 3:44 #"Cavalry" – 2:02 #"When a Brave Needs a Maid" – 2:42 #"To Wait Till I Come" – 2:57 #"Winter's Call" – 6:29 #"Interlude" – 0:32 #"Space Caravan" – 2:52 #"High in a Heaven" – 4:12 #"Sweet Sympathy" – 3:14

Personnel

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–

lead guitar Lead guitar (also known as solo guitar) is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs and chords within a song structure. The lead is the featu ...

, lead vocals * Alonza Bevan –

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

backing vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are ...

Paul Winterhart Paul Winter-Hart (born 19 September 1971 in Hammersmith, London) is the drummer for the English band Kula Shaker. He grew up in East Pennard, Somerset, and is noted for being reserved in interviews. In between Kula Shaker splitting in 1999 and ...

– drums * Harry Broadbent – organ ;Additional Personnel * Audrey Evans – backing vocals * Christian Gerard –

cello The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually tuned in perfect fifths: from low to high, C2, G ...

on "Peter Pan R.I.P" and "Ruby" * Himanesh Goswami –

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on "All Dressed Up (and Ready to Fall in Love)" * Vijai Krishna das – tabla on "All Dressed Up (and Ready to Fall in Love)" * Ben Castle – flute on "When a Brave Needs a Maid" * Sheema Mukherjee –

sitar The sitar ( or ; ) is a plucked stringed instrument, originating from the Indian subcontinent, used in Hindustani classical music. The instrument was invented in medieval India, flourished in the 18th century, and arrived at its present form ...

on "All Dressed Up (and Ready to Fall in Love)"

References

External links

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