''TPA Flight 028'' is the second album by Canadian

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Tristan Psionic Tristan Psionic was a Canadian indie rock band. The band members also founded the music label Sonic Unyon. History Triston Psionic was formed in 1991 in an industrial warehouse loft in Hamilton, Ontario. The band consisted of vocalist Sandy McIn ...

. It was released on vinyl and CD in 1996 on

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, a record label started by three members of the band. TPA is the

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, but it more likely stands for the fictional "Tristan Psionic Airline." The album held the number one position for Canadian college radio for eight weeks. It also reached the top thirty on the

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(Top 200) college radio albums chart.

Track listing

All songs written by Tristan Psionic (Peter Kirkpatrick, Sandy McIntosh, Mark Milne, and Tim Potocic). # "Air Traffic Control" – 4:26 # "Divided" – 4:24 # "Lucky Star" – 3:13 # "Professional Human" – 2:58 # "Secret" – 4:53 # "Puke" – 3:22 # "All of the Important Things I've Done" – 4:00 # "3 AM (Circa 1996)" – 3:01 # "Trans Am Kid" – 2:45 # "Zone of Compass Unreliability" – 2:59 # "Donut Rock City" – 7:02

References

Tristan Psionic albums 1996 albums {{1990s-indie-rock-album-stub