- Band Name: Pelican
- Record Label: Southern Lord Records
- Release Date: Oct 15, 2013
- Band members: Bryan Herweg, Larry Herweg, Trevor Shelley-De Brauw, Dallas Thomas
- Summary: The fifth full-length studio release for the mostly instrumental Chicago post-rock band is the first without founding guitarist Laurent Schroeder-Lebec.
- Record Label: Southern Lord Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Post-Rock, Heavy Metal, Post-Metal
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 5 out of 6
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Mixed: 1 out of 6
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Negative: 0 out of 6
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Oct 15, 201391By stepping back and taking stock, Pelican has reconnected with what made it a pioneer in the first place: force, vision, and soul.
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Oct 15, 201380It seems the change in membership has reinvigorated them, providing their songs with a sense of stability that shines through on an album that easily ranks as some of the band's most exciting work in recent years.
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Oct 15, 201380Other post-metal bands may be getting more attention right now, but few are doing it better than Pelican. [Nov 2013, p.90]
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Oct 15, 201370Though not as resonant as Pelican’s material that better blended their two strengths, Forever Becoming nonetheless carries both.
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Oct 15, 201365Forever Becoming doesn't offer any dramatic shifts in their sound. [Aug-Sep 2013, p.93]
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Oct 15, 201360This isn’t a terrible album, but it’s not much more than a re-run of what Pelican have been doing for a decade before.