Ponytail...April's fool joke or real artists?

Truly it is sometimes very thin the line dividing a true artist and a joke..it is however even fuzzier when you stumble into someone like Molly Siegel from Ponytail...I saw their show as an opening act to Los Campesinos and to be honest the line became more and more difficult to discern...their live show is surprisingly entertaining and her undoubtedly crazy performance grabs you along but reminds you at all times that everything you are looking at could very well be simply a joke...

Daytrotter gives a beautiful description of Molly, her music, her bandmates and the concept called Ponytail... they say, "How do you describe Molly Siegel? The lead singer for Baltimore band Ponytail is a whole host of who knows the hell what. She’s an artist without brakes or rules, looking at the side of a building and then getting out a number of drums of paint. She works under the gun, without a script, and gets to the wall with a brush in each hand - splashing blue here and red there, white over there and black where she knows it needs to be, all the while getting an enormous amount of the paint all over her own body. It’s like her sun tan....She splashes and squiggles and before too long, something emerges on that wall. It’s got definition and contours. It’s got shape and identifiable characteristics, but at the same time, it’s as if the finished product had been zapped, had its finger shoved into an electrical socket. It’s frazzled and yet shakily in one piece. She throws the brushes down and is satisfied with what she’s just breathed life into, this sweeping siren song to motion-sick and to those who aren’t afraid to dig the weirdness that this foursome (which is filled out by Dustin Wong, Jeremy Hyman and Ken Seeno) makes with the ease of a right hand turn on green."

At the end, trying to write something coherent about Molly or her band is tough...very tough and you keep asking yourself if you should even take them so seriously or run with the flow and see where time takes them...

Here's the link to their Daytrotter Session and a vid from their performance...judge by yourselves...

Daytrotter Session - Ponytail