TWO WOUNDED BIRDS
Excuse me sir or madam, do you have five minutes and fifty-three seconds to spare? You do? Fantastic. Then, perhaps you’d like to listen to Two Wounded Birds’ three track single Midnight Wave.
Yes, in the time it would take you to listen to Bob Dylan’s “Blind Willie McTell”, Pulp’s Peel session recording of “Common People” or even Prokoviev’s “Montagues and Capulets” (that’s the theme tune from The Apprentice to you and me), you could pummel your ears into next week with three land speed world record breaking tracks.
Two Wounded Birds are a four piece act from Margate with a so hip it hurts sound and retro Ray-Bans to match. Their music is a frantic mesh of punk with the Californian surf sound. It’s all ferocious wire-y guitars, ferocious synths and frantic drumming.
The three tracks are “All We Wanna Do”, “Do the Jay Jay” and “Midnight Wave”. A better example of manic music it would be difficult to find.
It’s a fantastic sound that recalls “Miserlou” (as used in Reservoir Dogs) – especially in the single’s title track, The Raveonette’s debut, Whip it On and the American rock and roll tradition that both recall. But there’s a clear punk ethos to the band’s music as well with a clear link to both the Ramones and one of the founding fathers of the genre, Doctor Feelgood.
With one instrumental (“Do the Jay Jay”) and two songs with minimal and often repeated lyrics, these are not songs with which you should bog yourself down in too much analysis. They’re for slamming your foot down on the accelerator to (in the safest possible way) and head banging to till you brain hurts.
Right, that’s enough of that. Let’s just get on and smash some furniture to “All We Wanna Do”.
Midnight Wave is available to download on iTunes now.
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18/04/2011 • Single Review
By Stephen Morris • Photos by
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On April 20th, 2011 at 2:21 pm
Amazing band! Really great to work with too. One minute they played a show at Britannia, Margate for Sick Fish, the next they were touring round Europe with The Drums!!! This band will really put Margate on the map