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Though Pelican is all instrumental their second album starts dramatically as the anxious melody beginning "Last Day Of Winter"**** evokes struggle or despair, and flows seamlessly through near-total breakdown and back to aural assault. The third track "March To The Sea" is of similar attitude but lumbers with more chugging. Though billed as post-metal I hear lots of 90's midwest emo in their riffing. "Autumn Into Summer" somewhat haphazardly hits on everything emo from the math-rock-y introduction to melodic riffs played at hardcore volume.The second half of "Red Ran Amber" reminds me of Mineral or Low, and there is plenty of the emo "tink" (accents on the ride cymbal) distributed throughout the album. The sonic pummeling is broken up in the middle of the album by the untitled "-", a grunge-era acoustic track of the type Soundgarden did better versions of several times. The last 2 songs are all about emo's melody and extremes in intensity, so as if on cue the outro of "Sirius" is as stately-bombastic as you could want. Pelican wisely started the album with instantly memorable "Last Day Of Winter" as that's as good as it gets, though most of the album makes fine, wait for it, background music.
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