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Ponytail - "Celebrate the Body Electric (It Came From an Angel)"

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 I'm not sure if all of you good people are fully aware of We Are Free Records yet, but I think you certainly need to be. They've already put out one fantastic record in Yeasayer's All Hour Cymbals and now they're getting ready to release sure-to-be winners from Indian Jewelry and Ponytail. Now, I've already covered the former over at Austin Sound (you can check out that fine piece of work right here), so that means that today [...]

• Ponytail - Celebrate the Body Electric (It Came From an Angel)

When we saw Ponytail spazz and bounce at Bowery during CMJ, we're pretty sure the Baltimore quartet played the Whitman-sampling "Celebrate The Body Electric (It Came From An Angel)," the first single from Ice Cream Spiritual , the sophomore follow up to 2005's Kamehameha . Its opening ambiance (that upward shot of strings) and Molly Sigel's tongues-speaking doggerrel and savant Yoko-isms are hard to forget. Over at MySpace , you can find "Celebrate" along with the less epic, answering-machine a-capella "Terrible Why." It feels like old-timey Blow. But, as is hinted by the sweaty, colorful [...]