If I Could See Dallas

Japancakes | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 12, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Darla Records
• ASIN: B000UTOQPQ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #610,581 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Ponies In The Surf are quietly one of a kind. Siblings and self proclaimed indie music nerds Alex & Camile live in Cambridge, MA though they’re originally from Bogota, Columbia. The Ponies build perfect soft pop songs with elements of Samba, Beatles, the more sophisticated folk set, the Pop Vocal traditionalists and they’re very much akin to The Violent Femmes and Johnathan Richman in terms of song craft, a subtle humor and vulnerability. The Ponies' work is uniquely comforting and highly addictive. It is served with a rare passion and grace. It evokes nostalgia for the above mentioned while remaining firmly planted in its own special, almost timeless place.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Complex, beautiful, and innovative music, November 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: If I Could See Dallas (Audio CD)

This Athens, Georgia, group defies standard musical categories. The songs often build from a single chord to which the band adds complex layers of cello, pedal steel guitar, old 70s keyboards, found sounds, and waves of lush guitars. This music manages to be great mood music that also merits close attention, revealing all kinds of hidden gems in the many layers of sounds. This is complex, beautiful, and innovative music. I highly recommend it.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Perfect combination, October 25, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: If I Could See Dallas (Audio CD)

Great, great stuff....innovative convo of pedal-steel guitar/country and science/electronica. This group's from Athens, GA, I believe, and this album is great for just relaxing and chilling out

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Complex, beautiful, and innovative music, November 19, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: If I Could See Dallas (Audio CD)

This Athens, Georgia group defies standard musical categories. The songs often build from a single chord to which the band adds complex layers of cello, pedal steel guitar, old 70s keyboards, found sounds, and waves of lush guitars. This music manages to be great mood music that also merits close attention, revealing all kinds of hidden gems in the many layers of sounds. This is complex, beautiful, and innovative music. I highly recommend it.