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.