Artist .........: Pelican
Title ..........: Flickering Resonance
Genre ..........: Metal
Subgenre .......: Post-Metal, Atmospheric Sludge Metal, Post-Rock
Label ..........: Run For Cover
Language .......: English
Year ...........: 2025
Street Date ....: 05.16.2025
Source .........: WEB (FLAC)
Bit Depth ......: 24 Bit
Sample Rate ....: 96.0 kHz
Mode ...........: Stereo
Size ...........: 1.21 GB
Tracks .........: 09
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Track List:
01.Gulch 02:48
02.Evergreen 06:27
03.Indelible 07:07
04.Specific Resonance 08:23
05.Cascading Crescent 04:24
06.Pining For Ever 07:00
07.Flickering Stillness 07:01
08.Wandering Mind 08:07
09.Ascending 07:47
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59:04
The release of Flickering Resonanceùcoming six years after Pelican's
last album, 2019's Nighttime Storiesùfeels noteworthy enough, as the
band's relative quietude in that span could have either indicated
disinterest or dissolution. Apparently, it was neither, because not
only is this a welcome new LP, but it is also a return to form in the
most literal of ways: sixteen years since he played on 2009's What We
All Come to Need, founding guitarist Laurent Schroeder-Lebec is once
again on a Pelican album. For a band that's had a remarkably steady
lineup (Schroeder-Lebec is the only member to have left since their
formation in 2001; Dallas Thomas took over guitar duties between 2011
and 2020), it's pretty on-brand such a late-era personnel shift finds
them with the same lineup they started with. While the sound of
Flickering Resonance is also something of a "return to form," it
doesn't really resemble the sprawling epics on early records like
Australasia and The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw or the
moody heaviness of What We All Come to Need. Instead, it evokes a
comfortable, almost naturalistic vibeùborne of familiarity and shared
experience, no doubtùthat evokes what a young Pelican may have sounded
like if they hadn't been determined to capture the universe's thudding
expansiveness within the confines of a 10-minute song. In other words,
this is the sound of a post-metal band that feels a little loose, and
maybe even a little happy. Even when careening through the multiple
tempo changes of the six-plus minutes of "Evergreen," the vibe is
swinging and organic, rather than surgically precise. Meanwhile, the
soaring dynamics of "Cascading Crescent" emphasize melodicism and
groove, bringing the listener along the cosmic journey and not just
pummeling them over the head. It's quite a different vibe from the dark
intensity of The Cliff EP or the unhinged aggression of Nighttime
Stories, but it's also quite different from anything else the Pelican
has recorded, making this the beginning of an exciting new (old)
chapter for the band. (C) Jason Ferguson/Qobuz
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