Pitchfork: MP3: The Ponys: "Double Vision"

While we brace ourselves for the March 20 release of Turn the Lights Out, the third LP from Matador's latest signing, the Ponys (Chicago reprazent!), here's a taste-- wait a minute. An album called Turn the Lights Out on Matador in 2007? Is that supposed to be some kind of joke? I guess they're taking that Capitol thing pretty hard after all (kidding, we love u guys <3).

Anyhow, Lights Out's "Double Vision", presented below in stunning MPEG-1 audio layer 3 format, finds our little Ponys further emerging from the riff-rock riff-raff, treating their guitars with dollops of delay, and delivering a pretty clean, concise case for rocking out in dorm rooms and dive bars alike. The lyrics probably won't make your LiveJournal, and singer/guitarist Jared Gummere does rhyme "place" with, er, "place", but who comes to music like this for poetry?