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  Ponytail - Burning Saddles
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"Ponytail's trad punk rock four-piece setup felt downright refreshing, like scouring your brain with a pumice stone. Chaos threatened at every zinging riff and bashed cymbal, but the tension came from the stop-on-a-dime precision with which the band beat the shit out of its instruments. Vocalist Molly Siegel--singer isn't the right word--is no bigger than a thimble and has one of those big-little voices that bug you out from the moment she ambles onstage. Mostly unintelligible, she swooped down for lower-register groans only to spit a flurry of piercing mewls and squeals like a hungry baby bird, her face a rictus of joyful possession and a swirl of hair during each miniature thrash explosion and dazed all-smiles in the lulls before the band ignited the next one. Guitarist Dustin Wong says there's an album coming--at some point, anyway--on the Creative Capitalism label, and the sooner the better. Loud, sweaty, spazzy, and yet as tight as a shrunken sweater, Ponytail is one of the best young rock bands in Baltimore."- Jess Harvell, Baltimore City Paper

"Because guitars can still beat up computers, bands still use them. Ponytail is a quartet that sounds like the Boredoms are from Maryland and have a girl singer. With a new album in the works, you better scribble them down fast." - Martin De Leon II, XLR8R Magazine