Pelican‘s new album “Nighttime Stories” has officially been announced for a June 07th release on Southern Lord Recordings. “Midnight And Mescaline” has been chosen as the lead single from the effort and is now streaming below. A 7″ for that track backed with “Darkness On The Stairs” will see a release this Saturday, April 13th, as part of this year’s ‘Record Store Day‘ event.
According to an official press release, the album’s title was originally intended for use with the Pelican-affiliated outfit Tusk:
“‘Nighttime Stories‘ was an album title initially proposed for Tusk, the hallucinatory art-grind band that included PELICAN members Trevor Shelley de Brauw, Larry Herweg, and Schroeder-Lebec, in addition to vocalist Jody Minnoch.
The writing of Nighttime Stories was instigated shortly after Minnoch‘s unexpected death in 2014, and some of the dissonant viscera and dark psychedelic structures that were characteristic of Tusk‘s sound began to unconsciously inform the album’s direction.
In homage to their departed colleague, PELICAN applied the previously discarded title and pulled many of the song titles from notes Minnoch had sent to inspire the direction of the unrealized album. As the writing of Nighttime Stories progressed, [guitarist Dallas] Thomas also experienced a heavy loss with the passing of his father, to whom the album pays tribute on opening track ‘W.S.T.‘ (on which Dallas performed his guitar parts on his father’s Yamaha acoustic).”
The track listing for the album will run as follows:
01 – “WST”
02 – “Midnight And Mescaline”
03 – “Abyssal Plain”
04 – “Cold Hope”
05 – “It Stared At Me”
06 – “Nighttime Stories”
07 – “Arteries Of Blacktop”
08 – “Full Moon, Black Water”
Pre-orders for the record can be found over at this location. As previously reported, the band will be touring with Cloakroom in June on the following dates:
06/20 Ferndale, MI – Loving Touch (feat. Greet Death)
06/21 Toronto, ON – Lee’s Palace
06/22 Montreal, QC – Bar de Ritz
06/23 Boston, MA – Great Scott
06/24 Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Bazaar (feat. Planning For Burial)
06/25 Philadelphia, PA – Boot & Saddle (feat. Planning For Burial)
06/26 Baltimore, MD – Ottobar
06/27 Pittsburgh, PA – Club Cafe
06/28 Cincinnati, OH – Northside Yacht Club
06/29 Chicago, IL – Metro (feat. Young Widows)
