Ponyloaf earn another opening slot, which is unfair as they’re a better band than a 9pm start suggests. Playing their riff-heavy electro-metal to an empty floor doesn’t seem to daunt them, however, as they embark on

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When it comes to scoring left-of-centre support slots, Brisbane electro-glitch avant-rock stalwarts Ponyloaf are the undisputed masters.

Reported on Monday, Apr 18, 2005. 21:07 by fezzwah


Brisbane's Ponyloaf have been doing the hard yards for the last few years, playing extensively at a plethora of live gigs around Brisbane, and supporting both local and international acts such as Chicks on Speed, ISIS, TISM and Kid 606. Consisting of

JJJ Interview with Ponyloaf and download Junkie Knights

http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/ausmusicmonth/nextcrop/ponyloaf.htm

‘O Complex’ is a stunning debut album from Ponyloaf that shows the Brisbane trio fulfilling on the promise they hinted at on their 2002 ‘Epic Travels’, and shows them honing their own distinctive mash of influences to create a sound that sounds truly unlike any other Australian electronic outfit right now - not quite Warp Records-esque IDM, shoegazer rock or new-school breaks, but a rather fresh and unpredictable hybrid of all of the above. Something very interesting is definitely going on here, and fans of likes of Plaid, Boards Of Canada and Sydney new-wave fusionists Cut Copy should most definitely check ‘O Complex’ out post haste. I also can’t sign off without giving a shoutout to local design legends Rinzen, who’ve done a bang-up job with the sleeve art once again. Highly recommended

Full Revew from In The Mix

The gestation for O-Complex has taken some time and Ponyloaf have had to go through some maturing on several fronts to complete this record. To their credit they have overcome a range of creative challenges to concoct a record that's focused, diverse, engaging and most of all fun. Not scared to dig into the dirt a little, this album features a slightly rougher edge to it, a rock sensibility (including some vocoder vocals) that lends the trio a new locus of operation.

Tracks like Aargh's Townhouse have a post rock formation to them, as if they have been chiselled out of the bones of contemporary music, Ponyloaf crudely gluing the bones back together to create a ghoulish un-rock monster fuelled by pure electronic goodness. Lost Heartache takes the trio deep into another form of audio recreation, borrowing this time from the rave world ­ instead of following the conventions of this format they turn it on its head, the results most favourable. These three have chemistry and there's little doubt it worked overtime in the creative processes of this record.
4/5 Stars (Lawrence English)

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"An album of myriad moods, O Complex shifts from the classical dream-like melodies of Classique to the synth-death-metal assault of Hit Pik, to the post-rock dynamic meets orchestral IDM of Nhaehe with suprising ease." - Andrew Tuttle Rave Mag 3.5/4 starz

some other crazy person who likes us a lot
http://presidentialsuite.blogspot.com/2003_06_01_presidentialsuite_archive.html

From the Null Device Blog
http://dev.null.org/blog/archive.cgi/2003/06/09

@ The Zoo, Regurgitator
28-Dec-02

http://www.ozmusicproject.net/magazine/gigreviews.asp?ID=266

A keyboard band has never grooved like this.

Ponyloaf: Epic Travels (Valve/MGM)

Ponyloaf are one of the new breed of live electronic acts bursting out of Brisbane, and are somewhat of an ubergroup...

By the Oz Music Project:

http://www.ozmusicproject.net/magazine/gigreviews.asp?ID=241

electro-post-rock-retro-futurists (my description, not theirs)...

The full review by Geoff is at the Delusions of Adequacy Web Site