PELICAN

The music is very repetitive and yet melodic, but I don´t find it particularly memorable. Sometimes band who play repetitive themes have a plan of why they do this and it can work to great effect, but it´s mostly really annoying and quite frankly boring in my ears. The latter is unfortunately the case here on the Pelican EP. The music is slow and almost doomy post metal and you almost have to be a wizard to make that genre work. I understand Pelican is considered one of the three big ones in post metal but it´s hard to hear why on this EP. The music isn´t bad, it´s just a bit boring and repetitive. The best song here is The Woods which is also the longest song here. The song has time to develop and even though this means lots of repetitive riffing it´s better than the short songs in my opinion.

The musicians are hard to judge as there isn´t played anything here that needs much skill IMO but they seem allright.

The production is a bit murky but pretty good.

The post metal style is not my prefered style which is probably obvious when you read my review, but I´ve given the Pelican EP a fair chance and it´s just not won my over. I´ve heard quite a few better albums in this genre that you should get instead. I´ll rate this EP 2 stars because it´s really not bad, but it´s not exciting enough for 3 stars IMO. I´ll be looking forward with caution when I shall review Pelican´s next releases. I hope they prove me wrong because right now I´m not that impressed with Pelican.

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