Pelicanman - Planet Chernobyl - Blue Marble - VINYL LP

Planet Chernobyl. Poem, libretto, opera. There's more than one Planet Chernobyl. You'll find that here, in the words of poet Charles Plymell, the vision of bassist Mike Watt and the orchestrations of singer/composer Petra Haden. Plymell's poetry chronicles the horrific Chernobyl disaster of 1986. Stirred by this work, Watt and Haden were inspired to put the words to music with their newly formed project, Pelicanman. The features stunning cover artwork by Tanya Haden.

Pelican has always been a band that's not just from Chicago, but distinctly of Chicago. Formed in 2000 by guitarists Trevor Shelley de Brauw and Laurent Schroeder-Lebec alongside brothers Bryan and Larry Herweg on bass and drums respectively, Pelican's foundation was built upon the rule-free, genre-agnostic scene synonymous with the Fireside Bowl. InchThe '90s in Chicago was a free-for-all. Everyone was just coming from a place of pure creativity,Inch says Shelley de Brauw. With Schroeder-Lebec returning to the band following Dallas Thomas' departure in 2022, this reunified version of Pelican allowed the band to tap back into the spirit of their formative era and build something distinctly new with Flickering Resonance. While longtime Pelican fans will recognize the album as an update to the band's ethos-one that's been constantly evolving since their very first EP-their new partnership with Run For Cover Records emphasizes something that's always been implicit to the Pelican formula. These songs take as much inspiration from titanic '90s post-hardcore, space-rock, and emo as they do traditional metal, showing that though Godflesh and Goatsnake records occupied the shelves of Pelican's songwriters, so too did Quicksand, Christie Front Drive, and Hum. InchA lot of people didn't hear it at first,Inch says Schroeder-Lebec. InchI was like, well, I guess the metal world is where we fit. But now, we're more willing to acknowledge all the suits we're wearing.Inch

Turquoise Viny. 1983 album from this AOR band led by singer/songwriter Tony Carey.