Pelican Daughters: Fishbones and Wishbones
Pelican Daughters
Fishbones and Wishbones
“Pelican Daughters is fab. Two spins this weekend.” ~ Simon Says
“This album blew me away the very first time I heard it, and I’ve listened to it at least once a day since first scoring a copy for myself; they pull off a sound that quite a few groups of the era reached for yet only occasionally succeeded in grabbing hold of.” ~ Other Music
“Genuinely jawdropping archival reissue from the Forced Nostalgia label, the first time on vinyl for this unique album recorded in the mid 80′s using analogue synths, found objects & DIY tape loops, drawing lines between the the postpunk movement and into the more introspective sounds that would go on to typify so much electronic music of the early nineties.” ~ Boomkat
Recorded on Portastudio, 1985-1988, Sydney, Australia by Andy Rantzen, Justin Brandis, Bryce Cannon and Andrew Holmes.
Versions of this album have been previously released on tape by Cosmic Conspiracy Productions (1988), on CD by Silent Records (1991) and as download on 4-4-2 Music (2009).
Special thanks to Alex Karinsky, Kim Cascone, Adrian Elmer and Andy Lonsdale for keeping these tracks alive across the years.
This version compiled by Fré De Vos, © Forced Nostalgia, 2011.
I have to agree with with everything those other guys said – Pelican Daughters Fishbones and Wishbones is one supremely bad-ass record. The attention to sound as abstract form the industrials love, repetitive minimalist patterns as psycho-motivator, stranger in a strange land found sounds, funked up bass beat, and distant voices all put together, bent and stretched into a taut humming sound force you’ll be more than happy to reckon with – time and again. Mind blowing, jaw dropping fab.