Ronan Fitzgerald: Thankfully, Fuckpony’s “Ride The Pony” ends up being everything that “Fill Me Up” is not. It’s sexier, more raw, and it actually bothers to mix its retro elements with 00s house music feeling. The title track is burbling in a Classic Records style, with a vocodered vocal that’s a perfect string of rhyming Trax records clichés. But it’s “Cell Phone Hit” that steals the show. On Tuning Spork, Jay Haze and Samim have been flirting with the idea of ditching the minimal and making a record this garish and sleazy for some time. There’s no doubt Get Physical is pretty much the label for interesting pop-art-techno fusions these days, but it really must be done with some imagination otherwise it’s not worth the effort.

Nate De Young: Caro’s “My Little Pony” apparently sewed the seeds for the latest genre fad: prurient-pony-house. Jay Haze and Samim Winiger’s latest on Get Physical extends the wink-nudge of Caro, pairing a cartoon-western landscape cover with the title Ride the Pony. The title track is everything your heart and loins desire, with a beckoning diva and a backing track that gains velocity throughout the song. Just in case you were confused about the song’s title, Fuckpony include found-sound of a guy peddling rides—and yes, it’s totally necessary. “Cell Phone Hit” might be no less salacious (e.g. “I got to get inside ya”), but both B-sides maintain the propulsion of the title cut. If this is an attempt to brand the pony as a sex symbol, Fuckpony didn’t forget to bring the tattooing iron.

Get Physical Music / GPM 044