''Pilgrims Progress'' is the fourth

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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 iTunes Store 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

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, with a bonus CD of unreleased songs and

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; 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 outside of Japan.

Track listing

All music composed by

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. #"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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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 us ...

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

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* Harry Broadbent –

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;Additional Personnel * Audrey Evans – backing vocals * Christian Gerard –

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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)" *

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on "When a Brave Needs a Maid" * Sheema Mukherjee –

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

References

External links

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