PELICAN RELEASE FIRST ALBUM IN SIX YEARS

PELICAN RELEASE FIRST ALBUM IN SIX YEARS, FLICKERING RESONANCE VIA RUN FOR COVER

LISTEN HERE FLICKERING RESONANCE MARKS FIRST ALBUM FROM FOUNDING LINEUP SINCE 2009

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Chicago rock institution Pelican have released their first full length in six years, Flickering Resonance, via Run For Cover. With founding guitarist Laurent Schroeder-Lebec rejoining the band for his first full length since 2009’s What We All Come To Need, the album’s eight songs tap into the spirit of their formative era when Schroeder-Lebec teamed with fellow guitarist 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 variegated booking style would often result in post-hardcore, space-rock, indie, metal, and emo bands sharing bills, unwittingly providing a vast template of influences for the young band.  Though Pelican’s thick sonic backbone remains intact, via a recording by longtime ally Sanford Parker (a collaborator as far back as their first EP), the songs on Flickering Resonance demonstrate a more humanistic side of the band. Songs like “Pining For Ever” and “Indelible” tease Pelican’s doom-metal bonafides while feeling equally ebullient and earnest - playing like a downtuned Texas Is The Reason transmuted to a post-rock landscape. Meanwhile songs like the searing lead single “Cascading Crescent” act as an appreciation for the glimmers of joy that occur even in the bleakest landscapes, as represented by an opening cavalcade of heavy riffs that pivot mid-song to a sugar rush of pastoral melodies.  Tickets for their summer tour in support of the album are on sale now. Kicking off in Cleveland on July 17th the east coast and midwest jaunt will make stops in DC, Brooklyn, Toronto and more before culminating in a hometown show at Chicago’s Thalia Hall. See full dates below.

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Pelican tour dates   Jul 17 Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom + Jul 18 Washington, DC - DC9 + Jul 19 Philadelphia, PA - Underground Arts + Jul 20 Brooklyn, NY - The Meadows + Jul 21 Boston, MA - The Sinclair + Jul 22 Montreal, QC - Bar le Ritz PDB + Jul 23 Toronto, ON - Lee’s Palace + Jul 24 Grand Rapids, MI - Pyramid Scheme + Jul 25 - Indianapolis, IN - POST Fest + Jul 26 - Chicago, IL - Thalia Hall + Aug 8 Jaromer, CZ - Brutal Assault Festival Aug 9 Sinzendorf, DE - Void Fest Aug 10 Bochum, DE - Bahnhof Langendreer Aug 11 Tilburg, NL - Hall of Fame Aug 12 London, UK - The Dome Aug 13 Manchester, UK - YES Aug 14 Bristol, UK - Arctangent Festival Aug 16 Carhaix Plouguer, FR - Motocultor Festival * supporting Russian Circles + with Porcelain



Flickering Resonance track list 1. Gulch 2. Evergreen 3. Indelible 4. Specific Resonance 5. Cascading Crescent 6. Pining For Ever 7. Flickering Stillness 8. Wandering Mind

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