Pelican - Ephemeral

It's funny, you'd never think you'd see a day where you would see a Pelican jump a shark, but the old phrase used to state that I feel that the band doesn't have one single even remotely interesting new idea in their head is entirely fitting.

They started off as a metal band, there's no denying that, but what else there's no denying is that they've gradually softened as the years have gone by; not a thing wrong with that, I'm one of the few who love both City of Echoes and Australiasia, but this new EP is just a joke, it's like they took ideas they had for City of Echoes that weren't good enough for that album, or good enough to borrow to Explosions in the Sky, and just threw them on here and called it new work.

There's not passion; it's hard to make such a declaration against a band without vocals, I guess, but you could hear it in past albums, especially The Fire...., that this is a band who loved what they were doing: loved, key word in that sentence. Now they're just churning out recycled, forgettable and boring material.

For shame, guys, for shame.