With the mock confidence of an Ornette Coleman album title, Telstar Ponies were a challenging – albeit highly rewarding – proposition. VFTNM offered the usual Post-Rock influences but mainlined them with a Glasgow brogue / Velvets cool that set them apart from the image of studious scientists of sound which most Post-Rockers seemingly aspired to. Future Wire scribe Dave Keenan and co were indeed a pleasingly peculiar proposition: Post-Rock Rock Stars.