The Save the Children Book Sale is here. But are you ready? Pelican19 August 2016 Godspeed. Literature and Creative WritingVoice0 Comments57 views
9 Review: The Avalanches – Wildflower (XL Recordings) Pelican18 July 2016 "It is an audaciously cinematic soundtrack fitting nothing in particular; but its sweeping synaesthetic kaleidoscopes can crop up your deepest, unrealest teenage dream-memories." Harry Manson reviews Wildflower, The Avalanches' first album in sixteen years. Music0 Comments15 views
7 Review: Parquet Courts – Human Performance (Rough Trade) Pelican3 June 2016 "In finally cleaning up and colourising their previously dry sepia sound, the instrumental sounds and cues occasionally become so directly referential to very particular music that it starts feeling like a joke." Harry Manson reviews. Music0 Comments19 views
Review: The Life of Pablo Pelican28 February 2016 For most of us, that part-fabricated, all-celebrity iconic soup marinates his entire identity, and unfortunately for The Life of Pablo, any alternative interpretation you could try scooping out of his actual music still stinks of it. Harry Manson reviews. MusicVoice0 Comments18 views
Vale, David Bowie: You Changed Us Pelican11 January 2016 David Bowie’s role in music was one of the weightiest to ever come careening into western culture as we know it today. His death, concluding a concealed 18-m... Music0 Comments31 views
Pelican’s Albums of the Year Pelican24 November 2015 It’s not quite the end of the year, but it is the end of the Pelican year, so I thought I would get Peli’s music writer community to give us their top 5 alb... Music0 Comments30 views
Living Vicariously Through the Aux Cord: 4 Simple Steps Pelican14 September 2015 It’s finally here: the day of your big party, and the monumental playlist is nearly complete. Or hey, maybe it’s someone else’s big party, and the perfect... Music0 Comments27 views
6.5 Mac Demarco – Another One (Captured Tracks) Pelican12 August 2015 For all the ways Another One is a simple, polished little edible derived straight from countless artists before him, Mac Demarco’s whole thing as a popstar wh... Music0 Comments14 views