City of Echoes

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Pelican
City of Echoes

[ Hydra Head Records / CD ]

Release Date: Tuesday 5 June 2007

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On 'City of Echoes', Pelican's compositions continue in the group's familiar style of uplifting & aggressive themes.

Eclectic metal instrumentalists Pelican presented their much anticipated third full-length, 'City of Echoes', in 2007.

The Chicago-bred foursome is a perfect fit for their label home of Hydra Head Records, which is owned by Isis guitarist / vocalist Aaron Turner.

The group's compositions on 'City of Echoes' continue in their familiar style of uplifting & aggressive themes (best evidenced in "Broken Spaceship-Parts Needed"). Album title track, "City of Echoes" borders on being downright poppy, while "Winds With Hands" stands out as a pensive, solo acoustic-guitar piece. Pelican sports their doomy side with "Dead Between the Walls" and invokes their penchant for prog with "Lost in the Headlights".

The icing on the cake is Brooklynite indie producer-at-large Andrew Schneider, who brings a much-needed, analog-flavored tonality to this set.

"The band's maturation has been a matter of winnowing - finding the styles they do best, honing them rigorously, and chucking everything else."
-SPIN

"'City of Echoes' has a broader palette than its predecessors - but mostly, it puts the "metal" back in "instrumetal"."
-ALTERNATIVE PRESS

"On their fittingly titled 'City of Echoes', Chicago's beatific metal instrumentalists Pelican are at their most reflective, their most urbane."
-CMJ

Tracks:

1. Bliss in Concrete
2. City of Echoes
3. Spaceship Broken-Parts Needed
4. Winds With Hands
5. Dead Between the Walls
6. Lost in the Headlights
7. Far From Fields
8. A Delicate Sense of Balance

Pelican: Laurent Schroeder-Lebec; Larry Herweg; Bryan Herweg; Trevor de Brauw.