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PELICAN - City Of Echoes
| AV Club | | "Art metal" is a hard term to swallow, but it sadly tags a genre birthed by Neurosis, furthered by Isis, and copied by who knows how many indie-gone-headbanger charlatans. Pelican strutted into this game early enough to make a credible impact with exactly what the style needed: no vocals. Fans will quickly notice that City Of Echoes is Pelican's "pop" album, 80 percent succinct and sporadically bordering on modern hard rock without any epic waits for heaviness or acousti-filler mood pieces....full text |
| | PunkNews | | Pelican was screwed after The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw. There was just no way to make such a fantastic followup to such a fantastic album. I might be alone in thinking this, but I have the feeling that other instrumetal/art-metal fans tend to agree. Or maybe they don’t, and the album that is impossible to follow up was the eerily awesome Australasia. Either way, Pelican had some big shoes to re-fill....full text |
| | Sputnikmusic.com | | Acting as a bridge of sorts, between the genres of post-rock and post-metal, Pelican have never been afraid to experiment with their vocal-less sound. 2005's The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw saw Pelican trying to distance themselves from their previous releases such as Australasia, an album that drew much attention because of the obvious similarities presented by their peers, Isis. ...full text |
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