{"id":394482,"date":"2026-01-07T18:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T18:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/394482\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T18:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T18:55:09","slug":"pony-share-new-song-swallowing-stars-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/394482\/","title":{"rendered":"PONY Share New Song “Swallowing Stars”: Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s PONY, baby! The giddy, consistently excellent Toronto fuzz-pop duo will release their new album Clearly Cursed in a little more than a month, and it’s shaping up to be something special. We’ve already heard a grip of early tracks: “Freezer<\/a>,” “Every Little Crumb<\/a>,” “Superglue<\/a>,” “Middle Of Summer<\/a>.” Today, they break us off with another one.<\/p>\n

Like so many other PONY songs, the new single “Swallowing Stars” is a riffy and melodic gem that would’ve lit up the alt-rock airwaves if it had come out in 1994. I just really like this band. Every song is a perfect little hook-engine, and they all have personality to burn. Here’s what Sam Bielanski says about their latest:<\/p>\n

“Swallowing Stars” is about being caught in the crosshairs of a relentless people pleaser. Drinking in every beautiful word they say, as if it wasn\u2019t just a reflection of your own thoughts and ideas, and the ultimate letdown when you finally see behind the curtain. It’s like the scene in The Wizard Of Oz<\/a> when the giant animatronic wizard\u2019s head stops working and a little insecure man walks out from behind it.<\/p>\n

Check out the band’s DIY self-directed video below.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Clearly Cursed is out 2\/13 on Take This To Heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s PONY, baby! The giddy, consistently excellent Toronto fuzz-pop duo will release their new album Clearly Cursed in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-394482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}