Pelican share new track and announce extended tour dates in support of new album

PELICAN SHARE “COLD HOPE,” EXPAND TOUR IN SUPPORT OF NIGHTTIME STORIES
ALBUM OUT JUNE 7TH VIA SOUTHERN LORD

Pelican, the instrumental quartet whose singular vision of heavy music eschews classification, recently announced their first full length in six years and today they’ve released a new song from it along with US and EU additional tour dates. “Cold Hope,” the second track to be released from Nighttime Stories, due June 7th via Southern Lord Recordings, is an unrepentant crusher imbibed with moments of atramentous psychedelia and arguably the heaviest track on the album. With sold-out shows in Boston, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh the band has also announced an additional batch of US dates that include Champagne, Cleveland, Columbus, and Grand Rapids along with a fall EU tour (full dates below).

“Cold Hope” is not just a standout song on a Pelican album. It’s also the name of a new biere de garde that the band, who are known beer enthusiasts, are releasing in collaboration with the celebrated Chicago brewery Metropolitan. Of the collaboration de Brauw states: “Both Pelican and Metropolitan have somewhat limited scopes due to aesthetic limitations we’ve self-imposed: Pelican will always be a niche enterprise because we play instrumental metal; Metropolitan’s brewing output is limited due to the fact that they only brew lagers, which take much longer to brew than ales and therefore tie up the capacity of their equipment. Thus, both of us are pursuing a very specific aesthetic/artistic mission and creating a legacy rather than doing things that might be more immediately profitable.” For Chicago-area folks keen to try the beer and get an advance listen of Nighttime Stories, the band and brewery will be throwing an album listening/beer release party at 7pm on May 30th at Metropolitan Taproom, 3057 N Rockwell St.

Nighttime Stories marks the band’s first release written front to back with guitarist Dallas Thomas, who took over guitar duties upon founding member Laurent Schroeder-Lebec’s departure in 2012. In the process of writing the album, the quartet endured a slew of realizations, tragedies, and glimmers of optimism that guided the creative process to the most potent work of their nineteen-year career.

Nighttime Stories was an album title initially proposed for Tusk, the hallucinatory art-grind band that included Pelican members Trevor Shelley de Brauw, Larry Herweg, and Schroeder-Lebec, in addition to vocalist Jody Minnoch. The writing of Nighttime Stories was instigated shortly after Minnoch’s unexpected death in 2014, and some of the dissonant viscera and dark psychedelic structures that were characteristic of Tusk’s sound began to unconsciously inform the album’s direction. In homage to their departed colleague, Pelican applied the previously discarded title and pulled many of the song titles from notes Minnoch had sent to inspire the direction of the unrealized album. As the writing of Nighttime Stories progressed Thomas also experienced a heavy loss with the passing of his father, to whom the album pays tribute on opening track “W.S.T.” (on which Dallas performed his guitar parts on his father’s Yamaha acoustic). Pre-order for the album in all formats starts today here.

FIND TICKETS FOR UPCOMING PELICAN SHOWS

https://www.songkick.com/artists/460112-pelican

*w/ Cloakroom
June 20 – Ferndale – Loving Touch*
June 21 – Toronto – Lee’s Palace*
June 22 – Montreal – Bar de Ritz*
June 23 – Boston – Great Scott* SOLD OUT
June 24 – New York – Brooklyn Bazaar*
June 25 – Philadelphia – Boot & Saddle* SOLD OUT
June 26 – Baltimore – Ottobar*
June 27 – Pittsburgh – Club Cafe* SOLD OUT
June 28 – Cincinnati – Northside Yacht Club*
June 29 – Chicago – Metro*
Sept 13 – Tolono, IL – Loose Cobra
Sept 14 – Columbus, OH – The Shrunken Head
Sept 15 – Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop
Sept 16 – Grand Rapids, MI – The Pyramid Scheme
Oct 5 – Nijmegen, NL – Soulcrusher fest
Oct 6 – Berlin, DE – Lido
Oct 7 – Dresden, DE – Beatpol
Oct 8 – Prague, CZ – Futurum
Oct 9 – Munich, DE – Feierwerk
Oct 10 – Milan, IT – Legend Club
Oct 11 – Athens, GR – Fuzz Club
Oct 12 – Barcelona, ES – AM fest
Oct 13 – Porto, PT – Amplifest
Oct 15 – London, UK – Islington Assembly Hall
Oct 16 – Manchester, UK – Gorilla
Oct 17 – Glasgow, SCO – Classic Grand
Oct 18 – Birmingham, UK – Asylum
Oct 19 – Antwerp, BE – Desertfest
 

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