FLY PAN AM Ceux Qui Inventent N'ont Jamais Vecu (2002 Canadian limited edition 8-track vinyl LP - Montreal's Fly Pan Am sharpened their sonic and conceptual knives to shiny surgical points on this second full-length. Having gradually moved from long, reverb-drenched repetition to concise, bone-dry repetition in their live shows at the time, these songs are marked by a full embrace of stuttering, fucked-up funk. The result is a tightly-wound record that frequently seems to pop its own springs. A strange and resistant strain of instrumental rock had been breeding in the tweaked brains of these four boys, this record emerged as a startlingly infectious little virus, helping to keep the form alive by undermining and destabilising it in brash and unpredictable ways. The vinyl looks barely played and comes with the printed credit inner which has a couple of seam splits, housed in the textured card picture sleeve CST019-1)