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Review: 'WILD PONIES'
'Radiant'   

-  Label: 'No Evil Records'
-  Genre: 'Alt/Country' -  Release Date: '24th June 2016'

Our Rating:
East Nashville's Wild Ponies are formed around the duo of Doug and Telisha Williams and this album also features Megan Jane and Fats Kaplin.

The band's loose, twang-driven tunes alternate between delicacy and rowdiness.

Although, the sound is robust and plugged, but you feel the tracks would work equally well in acoustic versions. Doug Williams insists “I think we’ll always be a folk duo”.

Of the choice of songs, his partner Telisha says “We’ll take them however they want to come” and this open door policy means that the album features contributions by Amy Speace, Sally Barris, Jeff Barbra, Robby Hecht and Amelia White.

The title track is noteworthy in that the lyrics were co-written with a 12-year-old (Mariah Moore) who the duo met during the Country Music Hall of Fame's Words & Music program.

Their previous album, 2013's 'Things That Used to Shine' had a nostalgic strand and, as demonstrated by the track Unplug The Machine, you sense the preference remains for tunes that hark back to the past.

The (alt) country connection is well in evidence and traveling past an "Armageddon billboard" along "a two-lane road" on the opening track - Born With A Broken Heart - establish a backdrop of God-fearing family-orientated communities and of journeying down lost highways .

Viewed from horseback there may be an illusion of freedom but the constraints of tradition still weigh heavy.

Wild Ponies' website
  author: Martin Raybould

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WILD PONIES - Radiant