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First Listen: Pelican, 'Nighttime Stories'

On its first album in six years, the instrumental metal band has produced its most vulnerable yet overwhelming work to date.
Pelican's <em>Nighttime Stories</em> comes out June 7.

"Emotional" isn't usually the first word that pops up when discussing . For almost twenty years, the Chicago-based foursome has hosted excursions into the beautiful, bone-rattling boundaries of instrumental post-metal. The band's music is often as visceral as it is cerebral, but it's still largely abstract and, its latest full-length, Pelican has produced its most vulnerable yet overwhelming work to date.

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