Drawing from sources as disparate as Black Sabbath, the indie-instrumentalists in Tortoise and the self-flagellating noise-masters in Swans, Pelican makes instrumental hard rock that whispers as much as it shouts, and teases as much as it pummels.
"My husband teases me that I'm too vigilant when I buy turkey and put it in a plastic bag and put it on the bottom shelf of the grocery cart, away from everything else, " Undurraga said.
Through a series of narrative jumps, the oblique dialogue teases the audience as Karam tries to capture both the process of suffering and the comedy of how we cope with it.