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The Ponys
Turn the Lights Out Matador

Article written by Ged M - May 7, 2007

‘Turn the Lights Out’ is a guitar fest. A Chicago band originally on the inestimable In The Red Records, this is a touch garage rock, a touch North East rock (Pixies, etc) and a smattering of post-rock but wherever you listen there are guitars, guitars and even more guitars. ‘Maybe I’ll Try’ is Voidoids-like punchy, punky pop while the guitars are layered in the shoegazey ‘Shine’, one showing off, the other chiming away more subtly, and opening track ‘Double Vision’ is a sassy strut of Dirtbombs proportions. Only final track ‘Pickpocket Song’ breaks the mould: its barrage of sound has keyboards stabbing through a dense forest of squalling, feedbacking noise. Like being punched in the ear, this has a physical power, but all it produces is good pain, of the sort that tells you that full-on guitar rock’n’roll is still alive, well and evolving.

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