Pelikaaner — Eat More

The album cover is a festive explosion of colour, but this is not reflected in the content. The sound is dark, compact and full of ominous tremors. The Pols from Lodz bombard you with a heavy metal sound as if born in a steel works. Their sound sometimes referring to Sunn 0))), Pelikaaner buzz and flirt rather than electrocute. But like compact lava, their slow flow is no less irresistible and fatal. The order to "Eat More" does not lack authority but the listener's ears are already overfed. The ordeal is lessened here and there with the emergence of a gospel choir ("Sugar In Everything"), a plaintive snake-like trombone ("Sadness Makes Me Vulnerable"), and with the irritating but "just so" voice of bassist Ada Jelenski ("Lust"). Our Polish Black Sabbath therefore oscillates between Mogwai post-rock and spiritualized psychedelic-tinged soul. One marvel, the last track of the album "Over and Over" is a capella, culminating as if amassing a kind of celestial ether. Finally silence befalls. As if the whole point of this frenzy of noise was to glorify silence. Dare to have a moment of reverence for this metal album that reveals a sudden Catholic persuasion.