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Lead Pony is a California Rock & Roll band. Each member of LP are music fans first... they breathe it. The sounds of the band jump from decade to decade, sound to sound; rhythm and blues, glam, indie, folk... it's all there.
Last year, the band released its debut LP "Vultures" on Salton Sea Sound System, and will be touring extensively off of it. Produced by Trevor Spencer (Fleet Foxes, Father John Misty, Beach House, etc.), this collection of songs delivers the narratives that the band has collected over the 10+ years of playing together.
Lead Pony has your back, believe in Lead Pony.
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Lead Pony is a California Rock & Roll band. Formed in 2016, Jesse Hofstee, Hillary Laughery and Dylan Stallard started writing songs, recording and playing together with no purpose aside of blind ambition and the search for new feeling. Over the years the band has taken on different forms and sounds but has always been a place of authentic creativity for the three founding members.
After the EP releases of “Eclipse” and “Two Love Songs” the band toured and had successes getting music placement on the TV show “Shameless”. In 2019 the band took a breath to pursue other projects and creative endeavors, while always still dreaming and honing in their crafts to create original, powerful music.
In late 2021, the desire to make a full length record surfaced, and writing shifted into overdrive. Each member had grown creatively with new experiences and ideas to share and the songs came flooding out. The tone of the music and lyrics shifted, the songs had become much bigger than the band or the members. It was blooming into something that felt very important and needed to be curated and shared with the people. After bassist Seancarlo Ohlin joined the band during the summer of 2022, the band marooned at Way Out studios in Washington with Producer/Engineer Trevor Spencer (Fleet Foxes, Father John Misty, Beach House) and put it all to tape. The result was the bands first full length,“Vultures” a record that pulls from classic tones and pairs it with modern ideas and colors to create a cohesive fresh sound with enough depth to keep the listener coming back for more. Check out the record and catch Lead Pony in your city.
‘VULTURES’ ALBUM BIO
Vultures is the debut full-length album by Lead Pony. The band approached the writing of this record with the goal of creating an environment where these songs could live. In this case, it is our imagined version of ‘70s New York. Various stories weave through the record with a diverse range of sounds and styles all glued together with the voices and production that we were able to achieve with our producer Trevor Spencer (Fleet Foxes, Father John Misty, Beach House). The groove of each song was very important as the backbone. Once the groove was established new sounds were explored using classic instruments like Juno synthesizers, layered Mellotron sounds and fuzzy phased out guitar lines to create tunes that move, bounce and make you want to strut down a city sidewalk. The lyrics are vignettes of stories and ideas that at times are personal but took on a feeling that was bigger than the band and more about “the people”. Though parts of the record are dark, there is an underlying feeling of hope - pushing through the darkness to nurture the beauty of change and celebrate the power of comradery. “Vultures” is a record that pulls from classic tones and pairs it with modern ideas and colors to create a cohesive fresh sound with enough depth to keep the listener coming back for more.
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