Packaging Notes
Deluxe 180gram vinyl pressed at Optimal (Germany) comes in a 20pt/400gsm jacket with matte varnish and gloss UV spot varnish, audiophile polylined black paper inner dust sleeve, and a 12”x19” poster + 12”x12” insert both printed in full colour on uncoated archival 140M paper. Includes digital download. Artwork by Jonathan Parant with graphic design and typography by FEED.
CD comes in a custom mini-gatefold paperboard jacket with matte varnish and an inner dust sleeve for the disc. Artwork by Jonathan Parant with graphic design and typography by FEED.
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Tracklist
1. Avant-gardez vous
2. Distance Dealer
3. Bleeding Decay
4. Dizzy Delusions
5. Each Ether
6. Alienage Syntropy
7. One Hit Wonder
8. Discreet Channeling
9. Interface Your Shattered Dreams
Running time: 00:39:03
Packaging Notes
Deluxe 180gram vinyl pressed at Optimal (Germany) comes in a 20pt/400gsm jacket with matte varnish and gloss UV spot varnish, audiophile polylined black paper inner dust sleeve, and a 12”x19” poster + 12”x12” insert both printed in full colour on uncoated archival 140M paper. Includes digital download. Artwork by Jonathan Parant with graphic design and typography by FEED.
CD comes in a custom mini-gatefold paperboard jacket with matte varnish and an inner dust sleeve for the disc. Artwork by Jonathan Parant with graphic design and typography by FEED.
Description
C'est ça marks the return of Montréal avant-rock quartet Fly Pan Am, who released an acclaimed series of albums in Constellation's early years, from 1999-2004. The band’s unique and heady collision of motorik repetition, shoegaze maximalism, punk skronk, tape- and electronic-based interventions and audio sabotage, garnered them a cult following among fans of audaciously deconstructed post-rock.
Fly Pan Am quietly reunited in late 2017 for purely artistic reasons (needless to say), to explore making new music together after more than a decade spent in pursuit of separate sonic adventures. Within weeks, it was clear the band was firing on all cylinders again, brimming with electricity and eager to pick up where they’d left off with their last album N’écoutez pas back in 2004: pushing further into full-spectrum intersections of noise pop, post-punk, power electronics and musique concrète, while continuing to incorporate shrouded, textural vocals as alternately melodic and visceral components.
C'est ça is a brilliant return to form for Fly Pan Am – an album of renewed vitality and experimentation where rock structures underpinned by J.S. Truchy’s trademark rapid-fire bass and Félix Morel’s disciplined, ascetic drumming are submerged beneath waves of processed guitar by Roger Tellier-Craig and Jonathan Parant, with fluorescent noise treatments and sonic vandalisms wrought by all four. “Distance Dealer”, “Each Ether” and “Interface Your Shattered Dreams” nod to important influences like MBV and Hüsker Dü, while collapsing into/out of themselves in various ways. “One Hit Wonder”, “Bleeding Decay” and “Discreet Channeling” vault some of Fly Pan Am’s earliest reference points into the present: namely, the intrepid proto-Kosmiche of This Heat and Can, and later style-adjacent torchbearers like Boredoms, Flying Saucer Attack and Trans Am.
But Fly Pan Am have always and reliably been much more than the sum of their influences and of their own constituent parts. C’est ca is terrific slab of restless, conceptual, psych-cosmic noise rock that could come from no other band, forged by four musicians with long histories both together and apart. Following years of sonic exploration in all sorts of other projects and guises, whether in rock/punk/pop groups like Pas Chic Chic, Feu Thérèse, Avec Le Soleil Sortant De Sa Bouche and Panopticon Eyelids (to name just a few) or through a wide range of experimental electronic and audio-art projects – including Roger Tellier Craig and J.S. Truchy each with solo releases on Root Strata, and Truchy having run the Los Discos Enfantasmes label for several years – Fly Pan Am have reconvened with all four original members and made a new record sparkling with the creative buzz of lifelong artistic intensity, dialogue and friendship.
Thanks for listening.
Credits
Jonathan Parant : Guitare amplifiée, occultée et synthétisée par logiciels, voixRoger Tellier-Craig : «Guitares» hallucinées, assemblages électroniques, voix
Jean-Sébastien Truchy : Basse, électroniques, synthétiseurs et mellotrons logiciels, voix
Félix Morel : Batterie, cymbales «scrap»
Produit, enregistré et mixé par Radwan Ghazi Moumneh à l’Hotel2Tango
Matriçage par Harris Newman à Grey Market Mastering
Illustrations de la pochette et de l’affiche par Jonathan Parant
Design graphique par Feed
Reviews
"Chockfull of ideas... Nothing stays still for long in this colourful thunderstorm of pattering drumbeats, motorik bass grooves, restless rhythm changes, sparkling electronics, general stomping and shimmering, disruptive static fuzz, and the kind of dense & woozy guitar effects that Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine took whole decades of his life trying to perfect." – The Quietus
"C’est ça finds the group revived and renewed, now working from a palette of shoegaze, krautrock and – in their words – 'sonic vandalism'. 'Distance Dealer' and 'Bleeding Decay' are rooted in bright motorik pop, shot through with a dreamy fluidity. But there’s the mark of a firm editor’s hand here, with various deft interventions – screamo vocals, sudden edits and bursts of strafing electronic noise – emphasizing a mood of playful ephemerality." – The Wire
"C'est ça is probably their most readily enjoyable release, yet it never forsakes the repeat listen-demanding mastery of the band’s curiously sweeping-to-tentative intrigue the makes their comeback a welcome one. Their sound is alive. It’s impressive to find this group still stressing that fabric as they refine the patchwork, all while presenting a fine starting point for those who missed the boat the first time 'round." – Tiny Mix Tapes
"'One Hit Wonder' is a monolith of extraordinary atmospheric sound with a propulsive undercurrent, while 'Distance Dealer' and 'Each Ether' embellish the shoegazey essence with radio interference and what sounds like scrap metal being chewed. This is for people who like My Bloody Valentine but don’t think they’re nearly loud enough." – Electronic Sound
"The quartet run the genre gamut on their fourth LP, mixing and moulding together an amazing blend of influences to craft something sonically otherworldly. Over nine tracks and 40 minutes, the quartet wonderfully mess with sonics, timing, rhythm and their own legacy. But what makes C'est ça such a triumphant return for the band lies in just how damn listenable Fly Pan Am make it all come off, giving fans something much more adventurous and challenging than simple nostalgia would ever allow." – Exclaim!
"Back in action after a 13 year break from recording, this Montreal experimental/psychedelic quartet is in brilliant form on its new record. From the swirling guitars to the buried-but-melodic vocals and layer-upon-layer of atmospheric cacophony, this album never sounds the same twice. One suspects that is exactly what the band was aiming for." – Vancouver Sun
"C'est ça is so dense, hyper-focused, and determined that it forces itself to make sense, altering the listener's perception of how music works. What a bizarre, absurd, wonderful album. Easily Fly Pan Am's best." – AllMusic
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