Dudes. Here’s some great free music you don’t have to steal: Pelican’s latest release, their debut on Southern Lord, What We All Come to Need.

As Pelican has, in the past, shifted their metal-inspired instrumental music from their heavier foundation to some experimental jamming à la Tortoise, they’ve also always kept it moody and ominous. And that’s no different here… in fact, maybe the switch over to Southern Lord reinstated their love for the doom as well as the glory. This new album has both, and it’s wholly satisfying… not a clunker in the bunch. I mean, their older stuff still contains way more baddass-ness, but a track like “Ephemeral” is hard to deny for any fan of stoner and doom metal.

Check Pelican out when they blow through your town  on their upcoming tour through the States:

TOUR DATES:

• 10/20/09    Denver, CO The Marquis Theatre
• 10/21/09    Salt Lake City, UT Club Vegas
• 10/22/09    Boise, ID     Neurolux
• 10/24/09    Seattle, WA    El Corazon
• 10/25/09    Portland, OR   Hawthorne Theatre
• 10/27/09    San Francisco, CA Independent
• 10/28/09    West Hollywood, CA    The Troubadour
• 10/29/09    San Diego, CA   The Casbah
• 10/30/09    Tempe, AZ   The Clubhouse
• 11/01/09    Austin, TX   Emo’s
• 11/02/09    Dallas, TX   Outland Ballroom
• 11/05/09    Iowa City, IA    The Picador
• 11/28/09    Detroit, MI   The Shelter
• 11/29/09    Buffalo, NY   Soundlab
• 11/30/09    NYC, NY     Highline Ballroom
• 12/01/09    Philadelphia, PA   First Unitarian Church
• 12/03/09    Allston, MA    Harper’s Ferry
• 12/04/09    Washington, DC   Rock and Roll Hotel
• 12/05/09    Asheville, NC   The Orange Peel
• 12/07/09    Atlanta, GA   Earl
• 12/08/09    Birmingham, AL   Bottletree Cafe
• 12/09/09    Knoxville, TN    Cider House
• 12/10/09    Columbus, OH   Ravari Room
• 12/11/09    Chicago, IL     The Empty Bottle