Pelican Review

Pelican is still metal and still instrumental, but it has added to its sound. This record is one of the best to come out this year — not to say that its previous releases were not amazing — this one just encompasses more sounds.

Pelican’s driving, building, metal guitar is never hard to find on Fire, but the listener might have to sift through some other sounds, like an acoustic vamp or some Mogwai-esque spacey effects. On that note, some of the songs, like “Autumn into Summer” posses somewhat of an early Mogwai feel to them, but listeners will be able to tell that this is not Mogwai if they listen for more than a minute — it is something much more metal.

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