Steady Not Static:All the Dead Pilots

Steady Not Static
Label: amBiguous CITY!

Genre: Post-hardcore rock

Rating: 6.3/10

Fugazi. Faulkner. Flamethrowers. All the elements for a masterpiece of modern music were there when I first popped in All the Dead Pilots' "Steady Not Static". All seemed to be steadily (Get it?) adding up when suddenly, on the seventh track, it hit me: I wasn't listening to All the Dead Pilots. Or Fugazi. Or even old Bill Faulkner. I was inexplicably hearing Rival Schools' "Everything Has Its Point". Bewildered, I checked the next track, and things were back to normal: Frank Black was playing Faulkner with Burning Airlines. Still, the ghost of Walter Schreifels looms larger over this album than Addie over the Bundren family.

Fugazi. Faulkner. Flamethrowers. And Walter Schreifels, the Fish.