PELICAN Announce New Vocal-Driven Four Song EP; To Be Released Via Southern Lord 23rd Feb 2015
Chicago’s esteemed instrumental quartet PELICAN are set to release a new EP on Southern Lord in the new year based around fresh reimaginings of The Cliff, a highlight from their most recent album, 2013’s Forever Becoming, and one recently completed new song. Due out February 23rd on 12” vinyl and digital formats, the four track EP includes remixes from Justin K Broadrick (of Godflesh, Jesu), Aaron Harris and Bryant Clifford Meyer of ISIS/Palms, and, for only the second time in their fourteen year career, vocals.
Allen Epley (Shiner, The Life and Times) once again returns to the band’s fold to transform, in a complementary manner, the concept and overall outcome of what we have come to know as PELICAN. No cheap juxtaposition, Epley’s seasoned voice is as broad and astonishingly capable on The Cliff as the members behind the music, a claim those who have listened to Epley’s contribution on Final Breath from 2009’s What We All Come To Need will attest to. Elsewhere on the record, Justin K Broadrick, Aaron Harris and Bryant Clifford Meyer turn in fresh takes of the source material, feeling less like remixes than new compositions reworked from the original source. Rounding out the set is the previously unreleased song The Wait, a contemplative semi-acoustic simmer that builds to an explosion of cathartic distortion and melody in true PELICAN fashion.
About the new track the band remark…”The Wait was a song intended for Forever Becoming that wasn’t ready in time for the album recording sessions. It was great to have an opportunity to go back and bring it to fruition.”
The Cliff Tracklist
1. The Cliff (Vocal Version)
2. The Cliff (Justin K. Broadrick remix)
3. The Cliff (Aaron Harris & Bryant Clifford Meyer remix)
4. The Wait
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