Gloriously Poppy

Awesome review of PT from London I believe...

"The Deerhoof comparisons are far more obvious when it comes to Ponytail. Like San Francisco's finest and most prolific their music is based around an arty blend of noisey, chaotic riffs (from two guitars rather than one), furious drumming and nonsense vocals. But it's nonsense vocals taken to the extreme. Satomie Matsuzaki at least uses real words but Ponytail pay zero attention to that whole singing stuff that you might find in the dictionary even if what actually comes out of your unparsable thing, that's for squares. Instead they opt for growls, yelps, screams and purrs (which I guess means that you could cite Roy Orbison as one of their influences). It's mental.
And it's great.
And at the centre is the diminutive figure of Molly Siegel. So small that she could easily be mistaken for a child of indeterminate gender (more girlish looking boy than boyish looking girl you understand. Or just in fact, a girl) I've never seen anyone appear so deliriously happy to be on stage. Constantly grinning and oddly dancing around whilst declaring pretty much everything to be "awesome" she's blessed with a sort of infectious enthusiasm that swept through the venue and caught up pretty much everyone in the room in a way you absolutely wouldn't expect on a crappy September Wednesday evening in Dublin. And again, despite it being a million miles from what you'd generally associate with the term, because they're basically 4 vaguely hippyish nerdlinger types utterly lost in the joy of making a massive racket, what they do is gloriously poppy."