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Monday, July 11, 2005

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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Bangkok 5 Review

Imagine the Strokes, if they were from Hollywood. This idea has pros and cons. Pro: the Strokes follow in a long tradition of rock ’n’ roll influences, and adding some L.A. gritty glam to a sound like theirs can only intensify the rock. Con: even though these guys really rock, everything they are doing has been done before: if I want to listen to the Strokes, I’ll pick up a Guided by Voices record.

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Audioslave Review

Okay. Enough is enough. Wasn’t the first album a joke that kind of happened to rock in a crappy Clearchannel way? Whatever the deal was, it definitely didn’t warrant another wuss-washed piece of so-called hard rock. “I like driving backwards in the fog because it doesn’t remind me of anything.” Come on. Get some hair down there.

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