In The Pines

This remastered reissue also makes clear that 'In the Pines', far from being a perverse diversion, occupies a logical position in The Triffids' canon. It's relationship to 'Born Sandy Devotional' was always explicit, in it's manufacture amid the very landscape 'Born Sandy Devotional' painted, and in the appearance of 'Born Sandy Devotional' the song, which was omitted from the album with which it shared a name. What is fascinating about this reissue beyond, of course, it being a bunch of great songs recorded by a shockingly great rock'n'roll band - is that 'In the Pines' is properly revealed as the sketchbook from which The Triffids would create their most opulent, most ambitious album, 'Calenture'.