Spastic Baltimore art-pop crew (and art school security guards) Ponytail have been entertaining us with the longstanding, Walt Whitman sampling “Celebrate The Body Electric” for what seems like eons. It’s still sounding great, but it is a relief to know the band’s sophomore album Ice Cream Spiritual is finally out this month (via Yeasayer and Indian Jewelry home base, We*Are*Free). In anticipation, here’s the rambling, psychedelic, green-screened video for another Ice Cream standout, “Die Allman Bruder.” You won’t need German to get the references: More like a working knowledge of Southern rock and a Molly Siegel translating dictionary.
(Via P4K.tv)
Did you notice the band names (jam and otherwise) written on Jeremy Hyman’s snare? Dream Theater! Also, in case you forgot the sugar rush of “Celebrate,” please take another listen:
Ice Cream Spiritual is out 6/17 via We*Are*Free.
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Please please please get a new singer. He/She can scream, sing, growl or holler for all I care. Just no more senseless chirping.
I have heard the whole album. The music is sometimes interesting, in a psychedelia-meets-’90s-indie way, but the vocals are irredeemably bad. Best avoided unless you’re a Yoko Ono fan.
Molly “chirping,” “growling,” or “screaming” is still more inspired and evocative that most vocalists going on right now; Molly serves as conduit for an energy that most pathetic indie rockers can never hope to muster.