Pelican
Nighttime Stories
Release Date: Jun 7, 2019
Genre(s): Post-Rock, Heavy Metal, Doom Metal, Stoner Metal, Instrumental Rock
Record label: Southern Lord
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Album Review: Nighttime Stories by Pelican
Excellent, Based on 1 Critic
Based on rating 8/10
In the six years between the releases of Forever Becoming (2013) and Nighttime Stories (2019), the post-metal instrumentalists have experienced deaths, births, and assorted cruel slaps of fate. That bittersweet pill courses through Pelican's sixth full-length effort, stretching capillaries and diseased tissue to the breaking point. Brooding opener "WST," which pays tribute to guitarist Dallas Thomas' recently deceased father -- recorded with his dad's beloved acoustic guitar -- sets the tone, delivering copious amounts of doomy cinematics that seek catharsis through sheer sonic might.
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