The Chicago rock institution Pelican has announced that their first full album in six years, Flickering Resonance, will be released on May 16 via Run For Cover. Additionally, plans for a European tour this summer have been revealed, including two concerts in Germany. Founding guitarist Laurent Schroeder-Lebec has rejoined the band for his first album since What We All Come To Need in 2009. The eight songs on the album revive the spirit of their formative era, when Schroeder-Lebec teamed up with his guitarist colleague Trevor Shelley de Brauw and brothers Bryan and Larry Herweg (on bass and drums, respectively) during the heyday of Chicago's all-ages hub, Fireside Bowl. The venue's eclectic booking style often led to post-hardcore, space rock, indie, metal, and emo bands sharing the stage on the same night, providing a wide range of influences for the young band.
Pelican has always been a band that not only happens to come from Chicago but is clearly of Chicago. Formed in 2000 by guitarists Trevor Shelley de Brauw and Laurent Schroeder-Lebec, along with brothers Bryan and Larry Herweg on bass and drums, Pelican was rooted in the rule-free, genre-agnostic scene associated with the Fireside Bowl venue. “The 90s in Chicago were like a free pass for everyone. Everyone came from a place of pure creativity,” says Shelley de Brauw. With the return of Schroeder-Lebec to the band following Dallas Thomas’s departure in 2022, this reunited version of Pelican has been able to draw on those influences and create something entirely new with Flickering Resonance. Longtime Pelican fans will find an updated version of the band’s ethos, which has evolved steadily since their first EP. The new partnership with Run For Cover Records underscores something that has always been part of the Pelican formula. The songs are just as strongly influenced by 90s post-hardcore, space rock, and emo as by traditional metal, showing that while Godflesh and Goatsnake albums were on the shelves of Pelican's songwriters, so were Quicksand, Christie Front Drive, and Hum. “A lot of people haven’t heard it,” says Schroeder-Lebec. “I thought, well, I think we fit into the metal world. But now I’m ready to embrace all the suits we wear.” On Flickering Resonance, Pelican has allowed themselves to view their music less as a means of hard-earned catharsis and more as an appreciation for the glimpses of joy that appear even in the most desolate landscapes.
1. Gulch
2. Evergreen
3. Indelible
4. Specific Resonance
5. Cascading Crescent 04:24
6. Pining For Ever
7. Flickering Stillness
8. Wandering Mind
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