Pelican News: Pelican - What We All Come To Need (2009)
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Pelican are Pelican, but more. Massive instrumental tracks that build off of a few droning riffs, occasionally more heavy but often more prog-like than the bands they get compared to. "What We All Come To Need" can be ponderous, but it still works. The band's tightly controlled brooding remains as affecting and somehow uplifting as usual.
Guitarist Laurent Lebec has even invited some of the competition to sit in here and there on this first release for Southern Lord. Representatives of SunnO))), Isis, and The Life & Times of Shiner make this a sort of stoner-metal summit meeting, but...
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