Fly Pan Am
C'est ça
Release Date: Sep 20, 2019
Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Post-Rock, Experimental Rock, Noise Pop, Noise-Rock, Shoegaze
Record label: Constellation
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Album Review: C'est ça by Fly Pan Am
Great, Based on 2 Critics
Based on rating 8/10
On their first album in 15 years, Fly Pan Am return wiser and more established by coming off wilder and less structured. Once known as an offshoot of Godspeed You! Black Emperor (due to guitarist Roger Tellier-Craig's stint with the band in the early '00s), the quartet run the genre gamut on their fourth LP, C'est ça, mixing and moulding together an amazing blend of influences to craft something sonically otherworldly. Reforming in 2017 to play a single show in their hometown of Montreal, the quartet communally mashed together a decade ….
Based on rating 3.5/5
After a scritchy, squirming overture (both intro and portent to temperament), C’est ça pinwheel-flits into what could be the most bracing perma-grin gazer since Pinkshinyultrablast gave us “Ravestar Supreme.” But the honors here ought to go to the more trance-like material. “Discreet Channeling” in particular hits on that old soaring Constellation drama (with dueling howl/sing vocals here), but not without first bouncing you into a squeezed hyperspace somewhere between delirium and wonder, for most of the track. The vocal effect employed in this section is not dissimilar to that of Radwan Ghazi Moumneh’s in Jerusalem In My Heart.
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