Ponytail is a band from Baltimore, Maryland with an enthusiasm that is soo Brooklynite but hey, it lacks the pretention of a true Brooklynite, it is real as cream and Molly Sieger does the whipping. With the jolly frolic of poppy love and drum beats and cries reminiscent of native American tribes, you are sure to have Molly beat herself and the crowd into a forceful trance. This trance is as intuitive as spiritual and self induced but never seemingly fake always apparently authentic. It is luring to hear their pop cheese melt into Americana influence, and elevated above the common ground by a smashing coup de poesie.

Ponytail played as the closing act at the Bell House in Park Slope on January 23, with Pattern Is Movement and These Are Powers opening. Hearing Ponytail it is hard to capture the vocals alone as they are the carves in the harmonies, the sharp dents in audible surface, but Ponytail is Ponytail, an intellectual loss and a separate form of fancy only and solely because of Molly Siegel. Her vocals are dadaist ramblings of the vocal chords evoking Hugo Ball (lees verder…)