Kamil Antosiewicz:
"(...) Fly Pan Am, bratnia dusza święcącego tryumfy Godspeed You Black Emperor! (jednym z jej członków jest gitarzysta GYBE!, Roger Tellier-Craig).
Co można powiedzieć o zespole, który poprzez pączkowanie wykluł się z jednego z popularniejszych post-rockowo-psychodelicznych zespołów ostatnich lat (cokolwiek miałoby to znaczyć)? Ja mogę powiedzieć jedno: Fly Pan Am wprowadzają ożywczy powiew w post-jakimkolwiek światku. Kto wie, czy nie mamy do czynienia z nowym objawieniem? (...)"

Constellation Info:

fly pan am playfully explore the tensions between modernist tropes and pop irreverence without succumbing to cloying irony or mock seriousness. the straight-up metronomic drumming, with its obstinate refusal to add flourishes or fills, establishes a foundation upon which bass and guitar lines weave and shift with a naive rigour. the music is sometimes wilfully infuriating in its pursuit of an idea (i.e. track 3, which after a lovely series of harmonic changes, culminates in the repetition of a half-tone interval for over 10 minutes, while the digitalia of local electronic/actuelle musician alex st.onge takes over), and challenges the listener to construct an underlying narrative out of sonic collage (i.e. tracks 2 & 4, each in three parts). tape-based experimentation by all the members of the group add drones, transitional accents, and abrupt interruptions to the live band material.

an earlier version of 'l'espace au sol...' was released in 1998, by the montréal fanzine aMAZEine, as the A-side of a split 7" with godspeed.

the debut album by fly pan am is available as a three-sided double vinyl record and as a one-sided compact disc. both formats come in dark blue artstock paper jackets screen-printed by hand.