
Top 20 Albums of 2008 by Benn Ray 1. ICE CREAM SPIRITUAL by PONYTAIL Noisy, non-verbal, challenging, and different from everything else that came out this year in all the right ways yet Ponytail still reminds me of much of what I love about bands like Pylon and Deerhoof at their best. On their sophomore release, the band presents a string of punch you in the face songs with guitars switching modes between rapid fire chords to cascades to riffs. Meanwhile, I could swear vocalist Molly Siegel is [...]