Robot Ponies in The Toronto Star

Toronto Star music columnist John Sakamoto put the video for Robot Ponies on his weekly "The Anti-Hit List" in the number six position. Here is the quoted text:


6. LAURA BARRETT

"Robot Ponies" (video)

This suitably idiosyncratic visual interpretation of the best-known song by Toronto singer-songwriter/thumb-piano player Barrett imbeds a variety of determinedly quotidian scenes – dialing a phone, pouring a cup of tea – in microfiche pages of the Russian newspaper Pravda. The resulting contrast between the audio and the imagery only serves to throw the song's eccentricity into even sharper relief. (From Ursula, tinyurl.com/2j3qlc)

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