A five-piece comprising of Tahita (vocals), Andy (guitar), Igor (bass) Lou (keyboards) and Sarah (drums), they provide the kind of tight and bass-heavy future discoid noise currently setting hairs on end up and down the country.
Ice Cream, their first single on Modular, is already causing a stir online with fans creating myspace pages with lyrics taken from the provocative song. "A lot of [the lyrics are] about the perceived idea of how women are supposed to be, and putting my twist on it." Says Tahita.
NYPC have quietly set their world alight with a swell blend of disco, pop and punk which they are currently distilling into a debut album for Modular. Undoubtedly, one of THE bands to watch for 2007.
pitchforkmedia.com
Ear fatigue, waning appetite, and the creeping deficit of empty space on the office electroclash/postpunk/new-disco family tree/hookup whiteboard suggest we don't need any more boy-girl bands who wear lots of plastic accessories, dress like art-schooled parrots, spend 1/5 of their live show splayed out in palsy, and play synths like they're drums and drums like they're icepicks. But fuck! This is actually really, really good. As the genre demands, the UK's New Young Pony Club have the Factory motorik thing and the platitudinous sing-speak thing in check, but the success of these slow-burning new-wave-type singles is really defined by build and timing, and this one's constructed perfectly. It starts out like a pitched-down "Love Is a Battlefield" and layers up from there, till it's a tidy whirlwind of Telecastered squeals, whispering basslines, punchy vocal callbacks ("the get/ gooooo") and irresistible "ba ba ba-da ba" bits. Between these guys, Poni Hoax, Pony Pants and Pony Up, could 'pony' be the new 'wolf'? Oh Ginuwine, so prescient.
prefixmag.com
Let's be honest: There's nothing better than a truly great debut single. And while London's New Young Pony Club might be a little late to the dance rock/electro-pop party, they've given us just that with "Ice Cream," possibly the most sexual piece of rock music I've ever heard. Originally released as a single in 2004 but not receiving a true showcase until now, "Ice Cream" is truly a marvel of simplicity; it's almost hard to believe that the genre's other main purveyors weren't able to beat New Young Pony Club to the punch. Sprinkled with synths and post-punk guitars, the song is a veritable aphrodisiac: When vocalist Tahita Bulmer hisses over lines like "Drink me like a liquor/ C'mon and dip your dipper/ Show me what you're here for, guy," it's hard not to, um, take notice... It's looking increasingly likely that New Young Pony Club will be factoring heavily into your summer listening plans. There's a lot to like here and, just as important, a lot to look forward to.
angryape.com
The Get Go sounds like Debbie Harry singing over a Frankie Knuckles tune played by Joy Division. It's post-punk electroclash stuff but with a massive bass riff that rolls, unchanging, throughout the length of the tune. The sleazy, strip-club vocals are underpinned by sparse, glassy synths and a thin lead guitar riff that sounds like Bernard Sumner's got his hands on it. NY Pony Club's sound is up-to-date in a retro way. Yeah, the influences are from the eighties, but this is different to Felix Da Housecat's Prince-esque stuff and miles away from Bloc Party's Cure tunes. This record's rough and lo-fi, like Sleater-Kinney, but with a bigger groove – the tune is built around that massive bass line with the grating guitars and pop vocals building and building over it as it goes on.
