Nighttime stories / Pelican.
Material type:![Music](/opac-tmpl/lib/famfamfam/MU.png)
- performed music
- audio
- audio disc
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Main Library | CD | POP/ROCK Pelican | Available | 33111009505021 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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. Lumbering follow-up "Midnight and Mescaline" ups the decibels, laying down meaty slabs of grade-A stoner metal shot through with serpentine NWOBHM-inspired guitarmonies -- Pelican have always excelled at coaxing out lustrous bits of melody from discord. Elsewhere, the seismic "Cold Hope" goes full-on Sabbath, while the hypnotic "It Stared at Me" does a fine job emulating the fugue-like gait of Pink Floyd's "Careful with That Ax Eugene." True to its title, Nighttime Stories' best moments appear late. The cacophonous titular cut, all filthy beauty and Lovecraft-ian dread, and the epic, multifaceted closer, "Full Moon, Black Water," which deftly pairs massive grunge riffs, soaring alternative rock, and Hawkwind-esque space rock with icy black metal, showcase the band at their funereal best, administering sonic hospice to a world that's grown too tired to claw its way out of the abyss. ~ James Christopher Monger
Title from disc label.
Performed by Pelican (Dallas Thomas, Larry Herweg, Bryan Herweg, Trevor Shelley de Brauw).
Recorded Electrical Audio ; Decade Studios.
Compact disc.
WST -- Midnight and mescaline -- Abyssal plain -- Cold hope -- It stared at me -- Nighttime stories -- Arteries of blacktop -- Full moon, black water.