PELICAN To Debut A Buncha New Stuff At Their Chicago Show

Pelican release their first new material since 2019 named Adrift / Tending the Embers earlier this year, but that’s hardly all they’ve got up their sleeves! Pelican will place a set at the Gman Tavern in Chicago, IL on August 16 where they’ll debut a whole slew of new material from their currently-unannounced upcoming new record.

Check out Pelican‘s current list of live shows below and stream Adrift / Tending the Embers below if you haven’t already. It’s two brand new songs they’re both killer!

8/16 Chicago, IL Gman Tavern
8/17 Madison, WI Majestic Theatre (w/ Thursday)
8/23 Joliet, IL The Forge (w/ Thursday)
9/7 Chicago, IL Metro (w/ Russian Circles & Djunah)
10/25 Asheville, NC Heavy Mountain Fest

On their latest EP, Pelican offered upon its release: “Adrift / Tending the Embers marks Pelican‘s first new music since 2019 and the first songs written with the band’s original lineup since 2012. The EP marks both a reunion and a departure, eschewing the caustic bombast of 2019’s Nighttime Stories for more delicate and nuanced territory that imbibes their pastoral Midwest post-rock tendencies with triumphant riffs that feel indebted to the classic Dischord pantheon.

“Since reuniting with founding guitarist Laurent Schroeder-Lebec in 2022, Pelican have been playing career-spanning live sets in support of Thrill Jockey’s expanded reissues of the group’s first three albums. Energized by the initial run of shows and the invite to record a pair of cover songs for Numero Group’s 25^th anniversary, the band began writing again in early 2023.

“As the surplus of material began to amass and it became clear there was more than album’s worth of material taking shape, the band booked studio time with longtime collaborator Sanford Parker in order to share the burgeoning new direction with fans sooner than later. The resulting two song EP is available digitally from all DSPs and as a limited edition tape exclusively here.”