With the return of former guitarist Laurent Lebec in 2022 (last seen featured on 2009’s What We All Come To Need) arousing hope in some fans of a return to the sound of a record like 2005’s The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw, Flickering Resonance shows that it is still decidedly a modern Pelican album, with everything that entails. Flickering Resonance is muddled. At its worst, it represents a sort of creative nadir for “post-metal” and “atmospheric sludge”— whatever those words mean in 2025—in the same way late era Explosions In The Sky and God Is An … Continue reading Review: Pelican – Flickering Resonance