“We are open to just about anything... I am all for writing anything that sounds like a cavalcade of horses!” Trevor de Brauw and Laurent Schroeder-Lebec are crafting an epic journey, one riff at a time, as Pelican's original lineup takes flight again

Pelican's Trevor de Brauw [left] and Laurent Schroeder-Lebec perform at Hellfest 2022. De Brauw plays his Gibson SG. Schroeder-Lebec is playing his Silverburst Gibson Les Paul Custom.

Flickering Resonance, the latest studio long-player from Chicago-based post-metal instrumentalists Pelican, is an invitation to turn your mind loose for a while, to unshackle it from the here and now and surrender it to a creative force that feels somehow elemental, summoned from the natural world.

Since evolving out of the avant-garde grindcore project Tusk in 2000, initially as a side-project, Pelican has displayed a gift for transmuting the often ugly raw materials of underground metal and hardcore, sludge, rock or whatever, into something more reflective, redemptive and – okay – at times kind of beautiful.