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City of Echoes
City of Echoes
Studio album by Pelican
Released	June 5, 2007
Recorded	December 13, 2006, at Electrical Audio, Chicago, Illinois
Genre	Post-metal, post-rock
Length	42:28
Label	Hydra Head Records ; (HH666-124)
Producer	Andrew Schneider
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City of Echoes is the third studio album by American post-metal band Pelican, released in June 2007 on Hydra Head Records. The album's thematic center is one of globalization; critics received this intention with varying degrees of enthusiasm.

City of Echoes was leaked onto the Internet in early 2007. Five color variations were released for the album's vinyl format. This includes black, silver, translucent blue, clear and black "splatter," and light pink and black "splatter" record designs.

Theme

Guitarist Trevor de Brauw stated that "City of Echoes is moulded by the experience of touring—the title sort of refers to the feeling you get that, although you go to a lot of different places, one of the effects of globalisation is that you see so many similarities from city to city."^[1] Speaking on, the band talks about how "you start to see the spread of the Western world, and you think of current events and raging wars for oil, and you start to get hit with how wrong it is to see the golden arches everywhere".^[2]

On a more literal level, Laurent Lebec states that "I had no idea where we were going with the music when we started doing these songs [...] [t]he changes were pretty subconscious at first, then looking back we realized what was happening and we just went with it." He continues to add "when we were touring for our last album, The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw, even if we had a 75-minute-long set, we could only play five songs because they were all so long, and that can be tiring for an audience."^[3] They are also intent on making it clear that the album is not simply negative in message. "The title also pays tribute to how amazing touring most often feels. It's also a tribute to the joy that burns inside when you reach a place and people who don't speak your language are rooting for your songs and welcoming you into their unique environment".^[2]

Music videos

Due in part to the album's shorter song lengths, City of Echoes marks the music video debut of Pelican. Its first release, premiered on May 15, 2008 through the Headbangers Blog, would be for "Dead Between the Walls." Directed by David Kleiler, it was intended as an homage to Kyuss’ "Green Machine" video with "sand, fast cars, blistering colors, and just a focus on rockin’." It features the band performing in a sunny California desert and humorously plays on the concept of their purely instrumental band; as the video reaches the end, a bearded man with a microphone approaches the group and, to his disappointment, stands ready to sing just as the song ends.^[4] "Dead Between the Walls" found moderate airplay on Headbangers Ball in 2008.

"Lost in the Headlights" would make for a second video and storyline sequel of sorts to its predecessor. It was shot on the rooftops of downtown LA at night and in the Angeles National Forest by Kenneth Thomas' Scrouge Productions. The video begins with the same bearded man, regarded as "some jackass taking up precious screen time," watching the end of the previous video on a household TV set. Visibly annoyed, he grabs his microphone stand and again begins searching for Pelican. The man searches throughout the video and indeed finds the group but never manages to perform with them. This video debuted on November 13, 2008 on the Headbangers Blog and made its on-air premiere two nights later on Headbangers Ball.^[5]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Alarm	(Positive)
allmusic	^[6]
Decibel	(Positive)^[7]
Pitchfork Media	(4.4/10)^[8]
Spin	^[9]
Stylus	B−^[10]
Terrorizer	^{[citation needed]}

Reviews for City of Echoes were mixed but generally positive. Guitarist Laurent Schroeder-Lebec has described it as their "pop album," in reference to the fact that it classifies as their most accessible to a mainstream audience. As such, it can be differentiated from earlier material as it consists of "shorter songs and expanded catchiness."^[11] Tom Lynch of Newcity Chicago describes is as a "colossal departure, a seemingly blatant shun of everything that came before. But not necessarily in a bad way".^[12] To that end, it has been praised as a rarity, as an instrumental album "you actually want to listen to over and over again".^[13] A Spin review attributed this to a "maturer" approach, "with the title track and the strongly melodic "Bliss in Concrete" achieving in five- or six-minute mini epics what used to take the band twice the time and effort."^[9]

The album's message was one decrying globalization, yet some critics were disappointed with the results. Joe McLaughlin notes: "when Pelican claim the record focuses on the 'homogenous effects of globalization', I think I am excused in wanting a touch more than an intricate guitar riff and a thumping bass line to ponder over [...] I struggle to gain a tangible meaning solely from crashing cymbals underpinning distorted guitars."^[14]

Much criticism has been leveled at the drumming of Larry Herweg, with Grayson Currin writing for Pitchfork Media that he "has consistently prevented his Chicago-based instrumental four-piece from being as transcendent as they've long been touted," and that on this album "it's worse than it's ever been, largely because it now seems that the excellent and consistently developing guitar duo of Laurent Schroeder-Lebec and Trevor de Brauw are better than they've ever been."^[8] Pelican themselves are aware of this ubiquitous criticism. Guitarist Trevor de Brauw states in a Decibel feature that "on the first two records, Pelican was a guitar band. On this one, we’re an actual band, which makes a world of difference to me", and that "some people think of instrumental music as music where the players need to be shredding constantly. That was never the direction of Pelican—we never wanted to be like Don Caballero or Hella."^[15] An Allmusic review posits that on this release "Herweg is allowed a far greater range of expression, and actually plays against the beat in places, seeming to be out of time, while creating a new space for the guitars to enter in terms of tempo and texture."^[6]

Decibel placed the album at number thirteen in its list of the top 40 albums of 2007.^[16]

Track listing

All songs written by Pelican.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Bliss in Concrete"	5:30
2.	"City of Echoes"	7:06
3.	"Spaceship Broken - Parts Needed"	6:04
4.	"Winds with Hands"	3:57
5.	"Dead Between the Walls"	5:06
6.	"Lost in the Headlights"	4:10
7.	"Far from Fields"	5:18
8.	"A Delicate Sense of Balance"	5:24

Personnel

Band members^[17]

Trevor de Brauw – guitar
Bryan Herweg – bass
Larry Herweg – drums
Laurent Schroeder-Lebec – guitar

Other personnel^[17]

John Golden – mastering
Robin Laananen – photography
Aaron Turner – album art and design
Andrew Schneider – production
Will Duncan – production and recording assistance
Greg Norman – production and recording assistance
Jon São Paulo – production and recording assistance
Stephen Sowley – production and recording assistance
Jeff Spatafora – production and recording assistance
Rob Vestor – production and recording assistance

Chart positions

Chart (2007)	Peak position
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard)^[18]	9
US Independent Albums (Billboard)^[19]	40

References

^ Diver, Mike (March 27, 2007). "Pelican: "We're neither trend setters nor trend followers"". Drowned in Sound. Archived from the original on May 23, 2007. Retrieved March 29, 2007.
^ ^a ^b Scott, Thill (June 11, 2007). "Echoes in the Noise: An Interview with Pelican". Morphizm. Retrieved February 6, 2008.
^ Harris, Chris; Wiederhorn, John (May 18, 2007). "Pelican Getting Sick Of Weezer Comparisons". MTV. Archived from the original on May 21, 2007. Retrieved December 11, 2007.
^ "HBB Video Premiere: Pelican's 'Dead Between the Walls'". Headbangers Blog. May 15, 2008. Archived from the original on July 15, 2012. Retrieved December 14, 2008.
^ "Pelican's "Lost In The Headlights" Video Premiere this week on Headbanger's Ball". Hydra Head Records. November 11, 2008. Retrieved April 25, 2011.
^ ^a ^b Jurek, Thom. "City of Echoes – Pelican". AllMusic. Retrieved December 11, 2007.
^ Smith, Rod (May 2007). "Metalgaze kings Pelican built their sparkling new City on rock 'n' roll". Decibel. Archived from the original on September 18, 2007.
^ ^a ^b Currin, Grayson (June 14, 2007). "Pelican: City of Echoes: Pitchfork Record Review". Pitchfork Media. Archived from the original on December 13, 2007. Retrieved December 11, 2007.
^ ^a ^b Niimi, J. (July 23, 2007). "Pelican - City of Echoes". Spin. Archived from the original on August 25, 2007. Retrieved August 5, 2007.
^ Lee, Cosmo (June 12, 2007). "Pelican: City of Echoes". Stylus. Archived from the original on May 21, 2011. Retrieved April 26, 2011.
^ "City of Echoes at Shellshock". Shellshock. June 11, 2007. Retrieved August 5, 2007.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ Lynch, Tom (August 21, 2007). "Echo Effect". Newcity Chicago. Archived from the original on December 3, 2008. Retrieved February 6, 2008.
^ Carroll, Rory. "City of Echoes Artrocker". Artrocker.com. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved August 5, 2007.
^ McLaughlin, Joe (June 28, 2007). "Pelican - City of Echoes". RoomThirteen.com. Retrieved August 5, 2007.
^ Parks, Andrew (July 2007). "Pelican". Decibel. Archived from the original on October 15, 2007. Retrieved December 11, 2007.
^ Bonazelli, Andrew (January 2008). "Decibel's Top 40 Albums of 2007". Decibel. Archived from the original on December 3, 2007. Retrieved December 11, 2007.
^ ^a ^b City of Echoes (Media notes). Pelican. Hydra Head Records. 2007. HH666-124.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
^ "Pelican Chart History (Heatseekers Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
^ "Pelican Chart History (Independent Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved January 2, 2018.

External links

Official promo site, including sound clips

[1] Diver, Mike (March 27, 2007). "Pelican: "We're neither trend setters nor trend followers"". Drowned in Sound. Archived from the original on May 23, 2007. Retrieved March 29, 2007.

[morph-2] Scott, Thill (June 11, 2007). "Echoes in the Noise: An Interview with Pelican". Morphizm. Retrieved February 6, 2008.

[3] Harris, Chris; Wiederhorn, John (May 18, 2007). "Pelican Getting Sick Of Weezer Comparisons". MTV. Archived from the original on May 21, 2007. Retrieved December 11, 2007.

[4] "HBB Video Premiere: Pelican's 'Dead Between the Walls'". Headbangers Blog. May 15, 2008. Archived from the original on July 15, 2012. Retrieved December 14, 2008.

[5] "Pelican's "Lost In The Headlights" Video Premiere this week on Headbanger's Ball". Hydra Head Records. November 11, 2008. Retrieved April 25, 2011.

[allmusic-6] Jurek, Thom. "City of Echoes – Pelican". AllMusic. Retrieved December 11, 2007.

[7] Smith, Rod (May 2007). "Metalgaze kings Pelican built their sparkling new City on rock 'n' roll". Decibel. Archived from the original on September 18, 2007.

[Pitchfork-8] Currin, Grayson (June 14, 2007). "Pelican: City of Echoes: Pitchfork Record Review". Pitchfork Media. Archived from the original on December 13, 2007. Retrieved December 11, 2007.

[Spin-9] Niimi, J. (July 23, 2007). "Pelican - City of Echoes". Spin. Archived from the original on August 25, 2007. Retrieved August 5, 2007.

[10] Lee, Cosmo (June 12, 2007). "Pelican: City of Echoes". Stylus. Archived from the original on May 21, 2011. Retrieved April 26, 2011.

[11] "City of Echoes at Shellshock". Shellshock. June 11, 2007. Retrieved August 5, 2007.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[12] Lynch, Tom (August 21, 2007). "Echo Effect". Newcity Chicago. Archived from the original on December 3, 2008. Retrieved February 6, 2008.

[13] Carroll, Rory. "City of Echoes Artrocker". Artrocker.com. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved August 5, 2007.

[14] McLaughlin, Joe (June 28, 2007). "Pelican - City of Echoes". RoomThirteen.com. Retrieved August 5, 2007.

[15] Parks, Andrew (July 2007). "Pelican". Decibel. Archived from the original on October 15, 2007. Retrieved December 11, 2007.

[16] Bonazelli, Andrew (January 2008). "Decibel's Top 40 Albums of 2007". Decibel. Archived from the original on December 3, 2007. Retrieved December 11, 2007.

[liner-17] City of Echoes (Media notes). Pelican. Hydra Head Records. 2007. HH666-124.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)

[ac_BillboardHeatseekers_Pelican-18] "Pelican Chart History (Heatseekers Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved January 2, 2018.

[ac_BillboardIndependent_Pelican-19] "Pelican Chart History (Independent Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved January 2, 2018.

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+| label      = [[Hydra Head Records]] <br><small>[[Hydra Head Records discography|(HH666-124)]]</small>
-|Next album  = ''[[Pink Mammoth (EP)]]''<br>(2007)
+| producer   = Andrew Schneider
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-'''''City of Echoes''''' is the third full-length album by American [[post-metal]] band [[Pelican (band)|Pelican]], released in June 2007 on [[Hydra Head Records]]. The album's thematic center is one of [[globalization]]; critics received this intention with varying degrees of enthusiasm.
+'''''City of Echoes''''' is the third studio album by American [[post-metal]] band [[Pelican (band)|Pelican]], released in June 2007 on [[Hydra Head Records]]. The album's thematic center is one of [[globalization]]; critics received this intention with varying degrees of enthusiasm.
 ''City of Echoes'' was leaked onto the Internet in early 2007. Five color variations were released for the album's [[LP album|vinyl format]]. This includes black, silver, [[translucent]] blue, clear and black "splatter," and light pink and black "splatter" record designs.
 ==Theme==
-Guitarist Trevor de Brauw stated that "''City of Echoes'' is moulded by the experience of touring—the title sort of refers to the feeling you get that, although you go to a lot of different places, one of the effects of [[globalisation]] is that you see so many similarities from city to city."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/1801290|title=Pelican: "We're neither trend setters nor trend followers"|first=Mike|last=Diver|publisher=[[Drowned in Sound]]|date=March 27, 2007|accessdate=March 29, 2007}}</ref> Speaking on, the band talks about how "you start to see the spread of the Western world, and you think of current events and raging wars for oil, and you start to get hit with how wrong it is to see the golden arches everywhere".<ref name=morph>{{cite web|url=http://www.morphizm.com/recommends/interviews/pelican.html|title=Echoes in the Noise: An Interview with Pelican|first=Thill|last=Scott|publisher=Morphizm|date=June 11, 2007|accessdate=February 6, 2008}}</ref>
+Guitarist Trevor de Brauw stated that "''City of Echoes'' is moulded by the experience of touring—the title sort of refers to the feeling you get that, although you go to a lot of different places, one of the effects of [[globalisation]] is that you see so many similarities from city to city."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/1801290|title=Pelican: "We're neither trend setters nor trend followers"|first=Mike|last=Diver|publisher=[[Drowned in Sound]]|date=March 27, 2007|accessdate=March 29, 2007|archive-date=May 23, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070523131515/http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/1801290|url-status=dead}}</ref> Speaking on, the band talks about how "you start to see the spread of the Western world, and you think of current events and raging wars for oil, and you start to get hit with how wrong it is to see the golden arches everywhere".<ref name=morph>{{cite web|url=http://www.morphizm.com/recommends/interviews/pelican.html|title=Echoes in the Noise: An Interview with Pelican|first=Thill|last=Scott|publisher=Morphizm|date=June 11, 2007|accessdate=February 6, 2008}}</ref>
-On a more literal level, Laurent Lebec states that "I had no idea where we were going with the music when we started doing these songs [...] [t]he changes were pretty subconscious at first, then looking back we realized what was happening and we just went with it." He continues to add "when we were touring for our last album, ''[[The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw]]'', even if we had a 75-minute-long set, we could only play five songs because they were all so long, and that can be tiring for an audience."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1559965/20070517/pelican.jhtml|title=Pelican Getting Sick Of Weezer Comparisons|first=Chris|last=Harris|author2=Wiederhorn, John|publisher=MTV|date=May 18, 2007|accessdate=December 11, 2007}}</ref> They are also intent on making it clear that the album is not simply negative in message. "The title also pays tribute to how amazing touring most often feels. It's also a tribute to the joy that burns inside when you reach a place and people who don't speak your language are rooting for your songs and welcoming you into their unique environment".<ref name=morph/>
+On a more literal level, Laurent Lebec states that "I had no idea where we were going with the music when we started doing these songs [...] [t]he changes were pretty subconscious at first, then looking back we realized what was happening and we just went with it." He continues to add "when we were touring for our last album, ''[[The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw]]'', even if we had a 75-minute-long set, we could only play five songs because they were all so long, and that can be tiring for an audience."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1559965/20070517/pelican.jhtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070521071906/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1559965/20070517/pelican.jhtml|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 21, 2007|title=Pelican Getting Sick Of Weezer Comparisons|first=Chris|last=Harris|author2=Wiederhorn, John|publisher=MTV|date=May 18, 2007|accessdate=December 11, 2007}}</ref> They are also intent on making it clear that the album is not simply negative in message. "The title also pays tribute to how amazing touring most often feels. It's also a tribute to the joy that burns inside when you reach a place and people who don't speak your language are rooting for your songs and welcoming you into their unique environment".<ref name=morph/>
 ==Music videos==
-Due in part to the album's shorter song lengths, ''City of Echoes'' marks the [[music video]] debut of Pelican. Its first release, premiered on May 15, 2008 through the Headbangers Blog, would be for "Dead Between the Walls." Directed by David Kleiler, it was intended as an homage to [[Kyuss]]’ "[[Green Machine (song)|Green Machine]]" video with "sand, fast cars, blistering colors, and just a focus on rockin’." It features the band performing in a sunny California desert and humorously plays on the concept of their purely instrumental band; as the video reaches the end, a bearded man with a microphone approaches the group and, to his disappointment, stands ready to sing just as the song ends.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://headbangersblog.mtv.com/2008/05/13/hbb-video-debut-pelicans-dead-between-the-walls/comment-page-1/|title=HBB Video Premiere: Pelican’s ‘Dead Between the Walls’|publisher=Headbangers Blog|date=May 15, 2008|accessdate=December 14, 2008}}{{Dead link|date=January 2016}}</ref> "Dead Between the Walls" found moderate airplay on ''[[Headbangers Ball]]'' in 2008.
+Due in part to the album's shorter song lengths, ''City of Echoes'' marks the [[music video]] debut of Pelican. Its first release, premiered on May 15, 2008 through the Headbangers Blog, would be for "Dead Between the Walls." Directed by David Kleiler, it was intended as an homage to [[Kyuss]]’ "[[Green Machine (song)|Green Machine]]" video with "sand, fast cars, blistering colors, and just a focus on rockin’." It features the band performing in a sunny California desert and humorously plays on the concept of their purely instrumental band; as the video reaches the end, a bearded man with a microphone approaches the group and, to his disappointment, stands ready to sing just as the song ends.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://headbangersblog.mtv.com/2008/05/13/hbb-video-debut-pelicans-dead-between-the-walls/comment-page-1/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120715041806/http://headbangersblog.mtv.com/2008/05/13/hbb-video-debut-pelicans-dead-between-the-walls/comment-page-1/|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 15, 2012|title=HBB Video Premiere: Pelican's 'Dead Between the Walls'|publisher=Headbangers Blog|date=May 15, 2008|accessdate=December 14, 2008}}</ref> "Dead Between the Walls" found moderate airplay on ''[[Headbangers Ball]]'' in 2008.
 "Lost in the Headlights" would make for a second video and storyline sequel of sorts to its predecessor. It was shot on the rooftops of downtown [[Los Angeles|LA]] at night and in the [[Angeles National Forest]] by Kenneth Thomas' Scrouge Productions. The video begins with the same bearded man, regarded as "some jackass taking up precious screen time," watching the end of the previous video on a household TV set. Visibly annoyed, he grabs his microphone stand and again begins searching for Pelican. The man searches throughout the video and indeed finds the group but never manages to perform with them. This video debuted on November 13, 2008 on the Headbangers Blog and made its on-air premiere two nights later on ''Headbangers Ball''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hydraheadlines.blogspot.com/2008/11/new-pelican-video-premires-this-week.html|title=Pelican's "Lost In The Headlights" Video Premiere this week on Headbanger's Ball |publisher = [[Hydra Head Records]]|date=November 11, 2008|accessdate=April 25, 2011}}</ref>
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+| rev3Score  = (Positive)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.decibelmagazine.com/reviews/may2007/pelican.aspx? |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070918053531/http://www.decibelmagazine.com/reviews/may2007/pelican.aspx |archive-date=September 18, 2007 |publisher=[[Decibel magazine|Decibel]] |title=Metalgaze kings Pelican built their sparkling new City on rock 'n' roll |first=Rod |last=Smith |date=May 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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-| rev6Score  = B−<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/pelican/city-of-echoes.htm |title=Pelican: ''City of Echoes'' |publisher=[[Stylus Magazine|''Stylus'']] |first=Cosmo |last=Lee |date=June 12, 2007 |accessdate=April 26, 2011 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521112955/http://stylusmagazine.com/reviews/pelican/city-of-echoes.htm |archivedate=May 21, 2011 |df= }}</ref>
+| rev6Score  = B−<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/pelican/city-of-echoes.htm |title=Pelican: ''City of Echoes'' |magazine=[[Stylus Magazine|Stylus]] |first=Cosmo |last=Lee |date=June 12, 2007 |accessdate=April 26, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521112955/http://stylusmagazine.com/reviews/pelican/city-of-echoes.htm |archive-date=May 21, 2011 }}</ref>
 | rev7       = [[Terrorizer (magazine)|''Terrorizer'']]
 | rev7Score  = {{Rating|8.5|10}}{{Citation needed|date=April 2008}}
 }}
-Reviews for ''City of Echoes'' were mixed but generally positive. Guitarist Laurent Schroeder-Lebec has described it as their "[[pop music|pop]] album," in reference to the fact that it classifies as their most accessible to a mainstream audience. As such, it can be differentiated from earlier material as it consists of "shorter songs and expanded [[catchiness]]."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shellshock.co.uk/product_info.php?selected_cat=HH666124&artist=Pelican&Label_filter=Hydrahead|title=''City of Echoes'' at Shellshock|date=June 11, 2007|publisher=Shellshock|accessdate=August 5, 2007}}</ref> Tom Lynch of ''Newcity Chicago'' describes is as a "colossal departure, a seemingly blatant shun of everything that came before. But not necessarily in a bad way".<ref>{{cite web|last=Lynch |first=Tom |url=http://www.newcitychicago.com/chicago/6844.html |title=Echo Effect |publisher=''Newcity Chicago'' |date=August 21, 2007 |accessdate=February 6, 2008 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081203150024/http://www.newcitychicago.com/chicago/6844.html |archivedate=December 3, 2008 |deadurl=yes |df= }}</ref> To that end, it has been praised as a rarity, as an instrumental album "you actually want to listen to over and over again".<ref>{{cite web|last=Carroll |first=Rory |url=http://www.artrocker.com/reviews/albums/pelican |title=''City of Echoes''  Artrocker |website=Artrocker.com |accessdate=August 5, 2007 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927021458/http://www.artrocker.com/reviews/albums/pelican |archivedate=September 27, 2007 |df= }}</ref> A ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'' review attributed this to a "maturer" approach, "with the title track and the strongly melodic "Bliss in Concrete" achieving in five- or six-minute mini epics what used to take the band twice the time and effort."<ref name="Spin">{{cite web|last=Niimi |first=J. |url=http://www.spin.com/reviews/2007/07/0707_pelican/ |title=Pelican - ''City of Echoes'' |work=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]] |date=July 23, 2007 |accessdate=August 5, 2007 |archivedate=August 25, 2007 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070825204026/http://www.spin.com/reviews/2007/07/0707_pelican/ |deadurl=yes |df= }}</ref>
+Reviews for ''City of Echoes'' were mixed but generally positive. Guitarist Laurent Schroeder-Lebec has described it as their "[[pop music|pop]] album," in reference to the fact that it classifies as their most accessible to a mainstream audience. As such, it can be differentiated from earlier material as it consists of "shorter songs and expanded [[catchiness]]."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shellshock.co.uk/product_info.php?selected_cat=HH666124&artist=Pelican&Label_filter=Hydrahead|title=''City of Echoes'' at Shellshock|date=June 11, 2007|publisher=Shellshock|accessdate=August 5, 2007}}{{Dead link|date=July 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Tom Lynch of ''Newcity Chicago'' describes is as a "colossal departure, a seemingly blatant shun of everything that came before. But not necessarily in a bad way".<ref>{{cite web|last=Lynch |first=Tom |url=http://www.newcitychicago.com/chicago/6844.html |title=Echo Effect |publisher=Newcity Chicago |date=August 21, 2007 |accessdate=February 6, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081203150024/http://www.newcitychicago.com/chicago/6844.html |archive-date=December 3, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> To that end, it has been praised as a rarity, as an instrumental album "you actually want to listen to over and over again".<ref>{{cite web|last=Carroll |first=Rory |url=http://www.artrocker.com/reviews/albums/pelican |title=''City of Echoes'' Artrocker |website=Artrocker.com |accessdate=August 5, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927021458/http://www.artrocker.com/reviews/albums/pelican |archive-date=September 27, 2007 }}</ref> A ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'' review attributed this to a "maturer" approach, "with the title track and the strongly melodic "Bliss in Concrete" achieving in five- or six-minute mini epics what used to take the band twice the time and effort."<ref name="Spin">{{cite web|last=Niimi |first=J. |url=http://www.spin.com/reviews/2007/07/0707_pelican/ |title=Pelican - ''City of Echoes'' |work=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]] |date=July 23, 2007 |accessdate=August 5, 2007 |archive-date=August 25, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070825204026/http://www.spin.com/reviews/2007/07/0707_pelican/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
 The album's message was one decrying globalization, yet some critics were disappointed with the results. Joe McLaughlin notes: "when Pelican claim the record focuses on the 'homogenous effects of globalization', I think I am excused in wanting a touch more than an intricate guitar riff and a thumping bass line to ponder over [...] I struggle to gain a tangible meaning solely from crashing cymbals underpinning distorted guitars."<ref>{{cite web|last=McLaughlin|first=Joe|url=http://www.roomthirteen.com/cgi-bin/cd_view.cgi?CDID=6253|title=Pelican - ''City of Echoes''|publisher=RoomThirteen.com|date=June 28, 2007|accessdate=August 5, 2007}}</ref>
-Much criticism has been leveled at the drumming of Larry Herweg, with Grayson Currin writing for [[Pitchfork Media]] that he "has consistently prevented his Chicago-based instrumental four-piece from being as transcendent as they've long been touted," and that on this album "it's worse than it's ever been, largely because it now seems that the excellent and consistently developing guitar duo of Laurent Schroeder-Lebec and Trevor de Brauw are better than ''they've'' ever been."<ref name="Pitchfork">{{cite web|last=Currin |first=Grayson |url=http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/43430-city-of-echoes |title=Pelican: ''City of Echoes'': Pitchfork Record Review |publisher=[[Pitchfork Media]] |date=June 14, 2007 |accessdate=December 11, 2007 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071213150341/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/43430-city-of-echoes |archivedate=December 13, 2007 |deadurl=yes |df= }}</ref> Pelican themselves are aware of this ubiquitous criticism. Guitarist Trevor de Brauw states in a ''[[Decibel magazine|Decibel]]'' feature that "on the first two records, Pelican was a guitar band. On this one, we’re an actual band, which makes a world of difference to me", and that "some people think of instrumental music as music where the players need to be shredding constantly. That was never the direction of Pelican—we never wanted to be like [[Don Caballero]] or [[Hella (band)|Hella]]."<ref>{{cite web|last=Parks |first=Andrew |url=http://www.decibelmagazine.com/features/jul2007/pelican.aspx |title=Pelican |publisher=[[Decibel (magazine)|''Decibel'']] |date=July 2007 |accessdate=December 11, 2007 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071015092008/http://decibelmagazine.com/features/jul2007/pelican.aspx |archivedate=October 15, 2007 |deadurl=yes |df= }}</ref> An [[Allmusic]] review posits that on this release "Herweg is allowed a far greater range of expression, and actually plays against the beat in places, seeming to be out of time, while creating a new space for the guitars to enter in terms of tempo and texture."<ref name=allmusic>{{cite web|last=Jurek|first=Thom|url={{Allmusic|class=album|id=r1028421|pure_url=yes}}|title=''City of Echoes'' – Pelican|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|accessdate=December 11, 2007}}</ref>
+Much criticism has been leveled at the drumming of Larry Herweg, with Grayson Currin writing for [[Pitchfork Media]] that he "has consistently prevented his Chicago-based instrumental four-piece from being as transcendent as they've long been touted," and that on this album "it's worse than it's ever been, largely because it now seems that the excellent and consistently developing guitar duo of Laurent Schroeder-Lebec and Trevor de Brauw are better than ''they've'' ever been."<ref name="Pitchfork">{{cite web|last=Currin |first=Grayson |url=http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/43430-city-of-echoes |title=Pelican: ''City of Echoes'': Pitchfork Record Review |publisher=[[Pitchfork Media]] |date=June 14, 2007 |accessdate=December 11, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071213150341/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/43430-city-of-echoes |archive-date=December 13, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Pelican themselves are aware of this ubiquitous criticism. Guitarist Trevor de Brauw states in a ''[[Decibel magazine|Decibel]]'' feature that "on the first two records, Pelican was a guitar band. On this one, we’re an actual band, which makes a world of difference to me", and that "some people think of instrumental music as music where the players need to be shredding constantly. That was never the direction of Pelican—we never wanted to be like [[Don Caballero]] or [[Hella (band)|Hella]]."<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Parks |first=Andrew |url=http://www.decibelmagazine.com/features/jul2007/pelican.aspx |title=Pelican |magazine=[[Decibel (magazine)|Decibel]] |date=July 2007 |accessdate=December 11, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071015092008/http://decibelmagazine.com/features/jul2007/pelican.aspx |archive-date=October 15, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> An [[Allmusic]] review posits that on this release "Herweg is allowed a far greater range of expression, and actually plays against the beat in places, seeming to be out of time, while creating a new space for the guitars to enter in terms of tempo and texture."<ref name=allmusic>{{cite web|last=Jurek|first=Thom|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r1028421|pure_url=yes}}|title=''City of Echoes'' – Pelican|website=[[AllMusic]]|accessdate=December 11, 2007}}</ref>
-''[[Decibel magazine|Decibel]]'' placed the album at number thirteen in its list of the top 40 albums of 2007.<ref>{{cite web|last=Bonazelli |first=Andrew |title=''Decibel's'' Top 40 Albums of 2007 |url=http://www.decibelmagazine.com/features/jan2008/top40.aspx? |publisher=[[Decibel (magazine)|''Decibel'']] |date=January 2008 |accessdate=December 11, 2007 |archivedate=December 3, 2007 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071203151645/http://www.decibelmagazine.com/features/jan2008/top40.aspx |deadurl=yes |df= }}</ref>
+''[[Decibel magazine|Decibel]]'' placed the album at number thirteen in its list of the top 40 albums of 2007.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Bonazelli |first=Andrew |title=''Decibel's'' Top 40 Albums of 2007 |url=http://www.decibelmagazine.com/features/jan2008/top40.aspx? |magazine=[[Decibel (magazine)|Decibel]] |date=January 2008 |accessdate=December 11, 2007 |archive-date=December 3, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071203151645/http://www.decibelmagazine.com/features/jan2008/top40.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref>
 ==Track listing==
 All songs written by Pelican.
+{{Track list
-# "Bliss in Concrete" – 5:30
+|title1 = Bliss in Concrete
-# "City of Echoes" – 7:06
+|length1 = 5:30
-# "Spaceship Broken - Parts Needed" – 6:04
+|title2 = City of Echoes
-# "Winds With Hands" – 3:57
+|length2 = 7:06
-# "Dead Between the Walls" – 5:06
+|title3 = Spaceship Broken - Parts Needed
-# "Lost in the Headlights" – 4:10
+|length3 = 6:04
-# "Far from Fields" – 5:18
+|title4 = Winds with Hands
-# "A Delicate Sense of Balance" – 5:24
+|length4 = 3:57
+|title5 = Dead Between the Walls
+|length5 = 5:06
+|title6 = Lost in the Headlights
+|length6 = 4:10
+|title7 = Far from Fields
+|length7 = 5:18
+|title8 = A Delicate Sense of Balance
+|length8 = 5:24
+}}
 ==Personnel==
@@ Line 88: / Line 103: @@
 *Rob Vestor – production and recording assistance
 {{col-end}}
+==Chart positions==
+{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
+|-
+! Chart (2007)
+! Peak<br>position
+|-
+{{album chart|BillboardHeatseekers|9|artist=Pelican|artistid=|accessdate=January 2, 2018}}
+|-
+{{album chart|BillboardIndependent|40|artist=Pelican|artistid=|accessdate=January 2, 2018}}
+|-
+|}
 ==References==
 {{Reflist|2|refs=
-<ref name=liner>{{cite AV media notes|title=City of Echoes|others=Pelican|year=2007|type=|publisher=Hydra Head Records|id=HH666-124}}</ref>
+<ref name=liner>{{cite AV media notes|title=City of Echoes|others=Pelican|year=2007|publisher=Hydra Head Records|id=HH666-124}}</ref>
 }}
 ==External links==
-*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070620233654/http://www.hydrahead.org:80/hh/pelican_site/ Official promo site, including sound clips]
+*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070620233654/http://www.hydrahead.org/hh/pelican_site/ Official promo site, including sound clips]
 {{Pelican (band)}}
+{{Authority control}}
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v t e Pelican
Albums	Australasia (2003) The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw (2005) City of Echoes (2007) What We All Come to Need (2009) Forever Becoming (2013) Nighttime Stories (2019)
EPs	Pelican (2001) March into the Sea (2005) Pink Mammoth (2007) Ephemeral (2009) Ataraxia/Taraxis (2012) The Cliff (2015)
Live albums	Arktika (Live from Russia) (2014) Live at Dunk! Fest 2016 (2017) Live in Wroclow, November 23 2007 (2016) Live at Empty Bottle December 15, 2015 (2016) Live at the Gong Shop (2020)
Other releases	Pelican / Mono (split EP) (2005) After the Ceiling Cracked (DVD) (2007) "Deny the Absolute" (single) (2013)