Ponytail’s Dustin Wong will reveal the beautiful music lodged deep within his musty Baltimorean heart with solo album Infinite Love

Ponytail's Dustin Wong will reveal the beautiful music lodged deep within his musty Baltimorean heart with solo album Infinite Love

When you listen to Ponytail, does your mind inevitably revisit that time in college when you decided to drop acid every day of finals week, “Just to see if I could do it, man?” I bet your parents sure do! Every generation needs a salty crew of psychedelic chaperones to cut swaths through what your therapist callously refers to as “basic human existence.” And luckily for today’s Twitter children, Ponytail are as spacey as any Joe Meltingwall or Jane Vibratinghands that’s come around since Albert Hoffman first took a bike ride through his own cerebral cortex.

But thanks to the cruel human construct of time and (most likely unsubstantiated) rumors of Ponytail’s break up, loyal voyagers across the cosmic ocean will have to wait a spell before they can get their ears on a follow-up to 2008’s transcendent Ice Cream Spiritual (TMT Review). Thankfully, Ponytail axe-man Dustin Wong will fill the void with his first solo album, Infinite Love. Out October 5 on Thrill Jockey, Wong’s double LP layers a pastiche of guitar textures and loops that crescendo into an “orchestra” of sound that stops just shy of cacophonous but includes just enough racket to please all the headbutters out there in Americaland. Have a listen to an excerpt of Infinite Love’s D side to see just what the hell I’m talking about.

If you just can’t wait until October to get your Wong on, he’s got a couple dates in September near his Baltimore homebase to slake your psychedelic thirst:

09.13.10 - Baltimore, MD - Soft House
09.16.10 - New York, NY - Shea Stadium
09.18.10 - New York, NY - 3rd Ward
09.23.10 - Washington, D.C. - Velvet Lounge
10.23.10 - Baltimore, MD - Metro Gallery
10.28.10 - Baltimore, MD - G Spot

• Dustin Wong: http://www.myspace.com/dustinclarence
• Thrill Jockey: http://www.thrilljockey.com
• Ponytail: http://www.myspace.com/ponytailtunes

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