{"id":2442863,"date":"2019-04-11T15:22:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T21:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=821079"},"modified":"2019-04-11T15:22:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T21:22:00","slug":"pelican-preview-new-album-with-devastating-midnight-and-mescaline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/pelican-preview-new-album-with-devastating-midnight-and-mescaline\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelican Preview New Album With Devastating \u2018Midnight and Mescaline\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Pelican_credit-.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Chicago instrumental rockers Pelican unveiled a bruising new track, \u201cMidnight and Mescaline,\u201d from their upcoming album <em>Nighttime Stories<\/em>, out June 7th via Southern Lord Recordings. The track clocks in at just under five minutes and opens with a barrage of heavy riffs that run ragged over the ceaseless pummel of the drums. Just as the song seems to hit a peak it cuts out suddenly allowing a guttural bass line to take hold and lead the track through an extended breakdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cMidnight and Mescaline\u201d will also be released as a seven-inch vinyl single with the b-side \u201cDarkness on the Stairs.\u201d The seven-inch will be available as a Record Store Day exclusive this weekend. <em>Nighttime Stories<\/em> marks Pelican\u2019s first full-length since 2013\u2019s <em>Forever Becoming<\/em>, while it also follows their 2015 EP, <em>The Cliff<\/em>. The record is also the band\u2019s first written entirely with guitarist Dallas Thomas, who replaced founding member Laurent Schroeder-Lebec in 2012 (Thomas played on <em>Forever Becoming<\/em>, but <em>Nighttime Stories<\/em> features his first original compositions).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Per a statement, a sense of loss and tragedy permeates <em>Nighttime Stories<\/em>. Thomas\u2019 album opener \u201cW.S.T\u201d is a tribute to his late father, while the record\u2019s title was taken from a project guitarist Trevor de Brauw and Larry Herweg were prepping with their other band, Tusk, when that group\u2019s lead singer, Jody Minnoch suddenly died in 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Pelican will embark on a North American <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pelicansong\/app\/123966167614127\/?ref=page_internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">tour<\/a> in support of <em>Nighttime Stories<\/em> June 20th at the Loving Touch in Ferndale, Michigan. The trek wraps June 29th with a hometown show at the Metro in Chicago, June 29th.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Nighttime Stories&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em><strong>Track List<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. \u201cW.S.T.\u201d<br \/>2. \u201cMidnight and Mescaline\u201d<br \/>3. \u201cAbyssal Plain\u201d<br \/>4. \u201cCold Hope\u201d<br \/>5. \u201cIt Stared at Me\u201d<br \/>6. \u201cNighttime Stories\u201d<br \/>7. \u201cArteries of Blacktop\u201d<br \/>8. \u201cFull Moon, Black Water\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/pelican-new-album-nighttime-stories-midnight-and-mescaline-821079\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago instrumental rockers Pelican unveiled a bruising new track, \u201cMidnight and Mescaline,\u201d from their upcoming album Nighttime Stories, out June 7th via Southern Lord Recordings. The track clocks in at just under five minutes and opens with a barrage of heavy riffs that run ragged over the ceaseless pummel of the drums. Just as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2442863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 04:56:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}