Biography: Pelican - Pelican

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It becomes fitting, upon listening to Pelican's music, that the band hails from Chicago. When Tortoise and their contemporaries ushered in a new wave of instrumental music over a decade ago from the Windy City, it was a pastiche of genre-defying sound, simultaneously cohesive and expansive in influence. Similarly, Pelican's songs touch on so much from the canon of rock music. Yet they have refined their own sound over the course of their career-perhaps nowhere as progressively and courageously as on their third full-length, City of Echoes. When the quartet's first full length, Australasia, came out in late 2003, it was...