There is something truly incredible happening here. Pontiak are three brothers currently based in Brooklyn and Virginia who are turning heads and making some serious waves. Slipping into the cracks, Pontiak defy easy categorization creating an eclectic genre-defying sound that is coherent and undeniably memorable. Surreal lyricism and catchy melodies sung over atmospheric power-southern-rock with epic-psych riffs, head-nodding-grooves, precision drumming breaking into huge choruses and soaring reverb-heavy ripping guitar solos is about the best way I can think to describe their sound and that?s just the first song from the LP. Each track brings something different and it?s always the ?perfect? kind of different. They bring it down quietly to end the record with a nice acoustic piece that floats in timbre and time. Flawless despite its flaws, Sun On Sun is produced with a welcome unpolished and organically-grown raw sound likened to a soundboard recording of a live show. All of the songs on the album were recorded in one take with no overdubs other than the vocals. The Fireproof Records edition of Sun on Sun is a hand numbered LP limited to 300. Pontiak were recently signed to Thrill Jockey, and their first outing for the label entitled Kale will be released as a split LP with Arboretum sometime in July with a re-release of Sun on Sun in September. 8/10 -- Todd Brooks (5 May, 2008)