6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
With their original guitarist back, rockers Pelican are making new music
When Pelican, an all-instrumental heavy-rock band, recently released its first album in six years, the record didn't simply signal the Chicago quartet's reactivation. 'Flickering Resonance' is a back-to-the-future move. The eight-song release marks the return of guitarist Laurent Schroeder-Lebec, who left the group from 2012 to 2022.
Schroeder-Lebec departed in part because he wanted to start a family, and he decided that working in restaurants offered more financial stability than playing in a band. (He now has two children.) There were also some interpersonal issues that 'could have been handled with more conversation, more communication, more self-exploration,' the guitarist says in a phone interview.
