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[u:m]

Pelican better bloody play Belfast!

Im pretty sure it aint gonna happen this time

 

[xsteox]

Savage...Pelican are fucking deadly....

On the recommendations the new one is quite good....and see if you can get your hands on the J.K Broadrick remix of Angel Tears from the March into The Sea ep.'Tis beautiful.

i think its also on the split with mono.

 

[paul-]

i think its also on the split with mono.

Never even knew that existed...the japanese mono like?

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

here's a joke i just invented

q.what do pelican soundlike?
a.SQUAWWK SQUAWWWK

 

[xsteox]

Never even knew that existed...the japanese mono like?

aye. its a limited edition tour cd i think.

 

[Justin Toner]

Never even knew that existed...the japanese mono like?

It's a split 12" - vinyl only I think.

From Aquarius:

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MONO / PELICAN

split

(Hydra Head Industries)

lp

11.98

As some of you already probably know, this limited 12" is a split release on both NYC based post rock label Temprorary Residence, and L.A. based "thinking man's metal" label Hydra Head. Accordingly there are multiple versions, different colored vinyl, some on Hydra Head, some on TRL, some with different colored labels, etc. But you know what? That's just tough. We have to draw the line somewhere, and it's now right here. We sold out of the Temporary Residence version, which is now out of print. We now have about 25 copies of the Hydra Head version, which we would imagine is also out of print by now. We have all different colors: white, green, gold, and black. We have so few that these are limited to one per customer, and it will be totally random which color you get (we'll go through the colored vinyl copies first). This collectable vinyl business is beginning to obscure the whole reason we all buy records, because we love music, and we love to hear amazing music, and this record is absolutely fantastic. So try to stop worrying about the color of the vinyl or the number pressed or any of that stuff and just pick this up because it's so damn beautiful. Pelican deliver a massive slice of gorgeously grandiose post rock, sweeping and emotional, melancholy and but weirdly hopeful with its minor key arrangement. Not a trace of 'metal' to be found here. Which is fine by us. Imagine a slightly heavier version of the song that plays during the final scene at the end of the movie, after the boy has gotten the girl and we finally realize everything is going to be okay. It sounds a little like that. Really beautiful. The second track makes up for it though, as James Plotkin (Khanate, Joy of Disease) takes Pelican at their dirgiest / sludgiest and adds tons of extra grind and grit and grrr and effects and crumbling distortion and malfunctioning electronics. Like your favorite Pelican song dipped in blood and rolled in the dirt. Wow.

Mono, who are often touted as being metal, stick closer to their mighty epic post rock sound with a sidelong track that is as Godspeed You Black Emperor as a non-Godspeed band is likely to get. Brooding and melancholy, building to a huge explosive coda, before drifting back into a creeping maudlin dirge, that sort of drifts and fades into the dark. So nice. And as we mentioned before, far too limited. [/SIZE][/FONT]

 

[lazarwalker]

that is a lovely ep, the split with mono. i've never seen pelican before, can't wait for this tour.

 

[Jim A. Morrish]

http://www.southern.net/southern/news/?id=650

 

[Gambra]

Oh god. It's not surprising Hydra Head dropped them as the last album was pretty crap.

 

[I Bleed Black]

That guest they are on about in the article is Dylan Carlson and he's on an Earth cover I believe. Strange one.