IGNORE THIS isn’t an instruction, it’s a dare. You can try to avert your ears from Dead Pony’s chock-a-block 16-track debut, but they’ve made that task pretty fucking hard. The Scottish four-piece had grown tired of being underestimated as a band by those around them, so back in January 2022 they crafted this record as a response. “We had honestly gone through this shit-show as a band,” begins vocalist Anna Shields, as she and guitarist Blair Crichton chat with Kerrang! on a drizzly evening. “I always felt like [we were] making what [we] thought people wanted us to make, and it’s only within the past year and a half that we’ve really started to go down a heavy and alternative route. We’ve all started to be like, ‘Fuck this, let’s just do what we w...