First Listen: Pelican, 'Nighttime Stories'
On its first album in six years, the instrumental metal band has produced its most vulnerable yet overwhelming work to date.
by Jason Heller
May 30, 2019
2 minutes
"Emotional" isn't usually the first word that pops up when discussing . For almost twenty years, the Chicago-based foursome has hosted excursions into the beautiful, bone-rattling boundaries of instrumental post-metal. The band's music is often as visceral as it is cerebral, but it's still largely abstract and, its latest full-length, Pelican has produced its most vulnerable yet overwhelming work to date.
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