Pony Up – Just In For The Tail
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Pony Up – Just In For The Tail
Release date: August 6th 2007
Format: Single
Genre: Indie
Our Rating: 4/5
Upbeat, heady and armed with slap-in-your-face vocals. These girls sure know how to add slickness and vitality to a slightly clockwork-driven Indie scene. Vocally they are as refreshing as an After Eight after a curry. You will been damned if you don’t, and damned if you do…so just do it…this single is worth your every shekel.
Priya, MyVillage
Press release:
The city of Montreal has spent the past few years earning itself a reputation as a musical hot spot. Having already blessed us with The Arcade Fire, The Unicorns, The Stills and Wolf Parade and generally more bands than you can shake a stick at, its latest offering is Pony Up, an all-girl gang of old friends and two sisters who decided to form a band back on New Year’s Eve 2002.
Since then, the girls have been honing their songwriting chops and gigging North America ragged. Having decided that the time was right, the band then headed to the infamous Hotel2Tango studios with producer Ian Bilerman (whose CV boasts the aforementioned Arcade Fire and Wolf Parade) to record their debut album.
A taster of that forthcoming album comes in the form of their debut UK release, the Just In It For The Tail 7”, a two track slice of pure pop. Lead track The Truth About Cats And Dogs (Is That They Die) is Pony Up at their jaunty, immediate best. It’s full of thumping rhythms, self-assured vocalisms and melodious piano and guitar trimmings. It sure is one for the indie/bedroom disco scene. The track has already attracted plays from Gideon Coe (BBC 6Music) who called it “rather splendid”.
B-side, Wet, is a slower affair that builds and breaks like post-rock yet never fails to lose its pop sensibilities. Perhaps we could call it ‘post-pop’? It parodies the kind of plodding, jam-heavy rock so favoured by self-serious male musicians, mocking the dynamic that plays out between those boys and their female audience.
The Truth About Cats And Dogs (Is That They Die) is taken from their forthcoming album, the excellently-named, Make Love To The Judges With Your Eyes, which is released in the UK in September 2007. They will be touring the UK in October and November.
www.ponyup.ca
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