10 Best Instrumental Rock Music Albums Of All Time

10. What We All Come To Need - Pelican 

Back in the 1970s, instrumental albums by rock bands were a common feature in the musical landscape, particularly in the progressive rock genre. Nowadays, it's a harder sell. Not that there aren't a plethora of great bands out there making notable records sans vocals, it's simply that you have to dig further to find them.

Chicago quartet, Pelican, are one such outfit who are steadily releasing album after album of intriguing music. That they are hard to categorize is likely a contributing factor to their relative obscurity but, like all such bands, those who discover and love them will stick with them through thick and thin.

What We All Come To Need, a particular highlight in Pelican's discography, is the band's fourth album, released in 2009. The album came at a difficult time for the group, who by their own account were suffering from burnout and added stress from external factors. Nevertheless, they put together a fine set here. Recorded in just three weeks, What We All Come To Need rolls out in clouds of dark, broiling intensity. Featuring guest contributions from Greg Anderson (of Sunn O)))) and Allen Apley (of The Life And Times and Shiner).