Du Blonde and Samuel T. Herring of Future Islands unveil "Pelican Canyon"

Recorded in one take in a haunted Los Angeles studio in 2013, Pelican Canyon is a stripped back acoustic track, reminiscent of the '70s folk of John Prine and Joan Baez. The track is accompanied by a music video consisting of home movie footage from their road trip around the US.

Over four weeks the pair visited 15 states, including California, Virgina, Maryland, New York, and North and South Carolina, finally deciding to name the song after the pelicans and canyons that flank the magical stretch of Pacific Coast Highway between Los Angeles and Malibu.

Du Blonde reminisces on the recording: “"Pelican Canyon" is a song that’s really close to my heart. It’s a time capsule of one of many trips I took in my early twenties, when the world was still new to me and I was adventurous enough to drive out into the desert with a total stranger. It encompasses a feeling and experience I’ve been looking to recreate ever since.”