Pelican Nighttime Stories

Pelican Announces New Album and Shares "Midnight and Mescaline" Single

Pelican Nighttime Stories

As mentioned, instru-metal greats Pelican are putting out a two-song 7″ this Saturday (4/13) for Record Store Day with the songs “Midnight and Mescaline” and “Darkness on the Stairs.” “Midnight and Mescaline” is streaming now, and the band have revealed that it will double as the lead single off their first album in six years, titled Nighttime Stories and due June 7th via Southern Lord. It’s their first album with new guitarist Dallas Thomas, who replaced founding member Laurent Schroeder-Lebec in 2012, and Nighttime Stories was initially the proposed title for Pelican offshoot Tusk’s next album, until Tusk vocalist Jody Minnoch’s unexpected death in 2014. As a press release notes, “In homage to their departed colleague, Pelican applied the previously discarded title and pulled many of the song titles from notes Minnoch had sent to inspire the direction of the unrealized album.” They also note that opening track “W.S.T.” is a tribute to Dallas Thomas’ father, who recently passed away, and Dallas performed his guitar parts for that song on his father’s Yamaha acoustic.

“Midnight and Mescaline” finds Pelican at their heaviest, pulling from punk and sludge and keeping things driving and in-your-face for its entire five-minute running time. Stream that one below.

Pelican’s previously announced tour with Cloakroom begins in June, and includes a Brooklyn show on 6/24 at Brooklyn Bazaar with Planning for Burial opening (tickets). All dates are listed below.

Pelican — 2019 Tour Dates
June 20th – Ferndale – Loving Touch^
June 21st – Toronto – Lee’s Palace
June 22nd – Montreal – Bar de Ritz
June 23rd – Boston – Great Scott
June 24th – New York – Brooklyn Bazaar*
June 25th – Philadelphia – Boot & Saddle*
June 26th – Baltimore – Ottobar
June 27th – Pittsburgh – Club Cafe
June 28th – Cincinnati – Northside Yacht Club
June 29th – Chicago – Metro+

all dates w/ Cloakroom
* w/ Planning For Burial
+ w/ Young Widows
^ w/ Greet Death

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