You can't argue with the pedigree of Snowpony. Featuring ex-MBV bassist Deb Googe, ex-Stereolab keyboardist Katherine Gifford, not to mention Tortoise mainman John McEnitire as producer for their debut album "The Slowmotion World of Snowpony". I finally got the opportunity to hear the album today, and what a waste of talent. I can't recall hearing a pop album by anybody, ANYBODY (except, perhaps for Stone Temple Pilots' "Purple" {shudder}) that was completely lacking anything resembling a decent tune, even for ten seconds. It was as stale as last summer's fruit crop, flat production, piss-poor vocal melodies that were close in spirit to a faked orgasm in a third rate porn flick -- a total wasteland of musical merit. Katherine has complained that Tim and Laetitia wouldn't let anybody else write the songs for Stereolab. No kidding, the forward-thinking first couple of caramel-coated futuristic Krautpop were concerned that her songs would scar their unborn child for life.