Part of the new and long awaited generation of bands who know exactly what they want to sound like, how they want to be perceived and who there influences are Two Wounded Birds have brought a breath of fresh sea side air to the British music scene. Since the Indie ‘revolution’ led by bands such as The Strokes and The Libertines back in the early 00s, the British music scene has been inflicted with hundreds of generic, talentless, and completely boring bands releasing 3 minute long guitar heavy and lyrically whiney tunes suitable only for the ‘indie and rock’ rooms in your local Oceana. 

But by the end of 2009 a light appeared at the end of the tunnel. Just as people feared the worst and began trading in their skinny jeans for drop crotch trousers, their leather jackets for ‘obey’ caps and dropping off their record collections to the local charity shop replacing them with only the dubstep remixes - a new generation of bands and musicians emerged. What set these artists out from before? They all had one thing in common and that was their passion fro music. They had distinct styles and clear influences , gone are the days of bands dressing like the ramones, playing a gig in a dingy camden bar of incoherent songs just for the women and free booze. Make way for the dream pop revolution.

Perhaps the most obvious choice to call the leaders of this revolution where Brooklyn based synth pop and romantic in-visionaries The Drums who where embarking on a world tour just months after they played their first ever show. After releasing there EP Summer Time in 2009 journalists and critics where quick to label them as “surf pop” a title which the drums insisted wasn’t fitting for their music and worked hard proving themselves as not only much more then a surf pop band but also confirming it was a genre they never really should have been catergorized into in the first place. One of the most attractive qualities of The Drums is their clear passion and devotion to music and their influences, discussing them regularly in interviews, paying homage to them in videos and hand picking new and unique bands to support them at their increasingly popular live shows…one of these bands ofcourse being Two Wounded Birds. A band of which Jacob Graham believed in so much he released their EP on his Holiday Friends Record label. 

And its easy to see what attracted him to this band. Heavily laced with 1950s/1960s influences (inspired by the likes of The Beach Boys and The Ronnettes) intense, pop fuelled melodies with dark and eerie guitar sounds and innocently romantic lyrics creates a suprisingly unique and deeply refreshing sound. 

1950s rockabilly fuelled track No Return sounds like it was recorded in America in the mid 50s evoking black and white montages of high school proms, drive in theatres, leather jackets and young lust whilst 2.17minute long instrumental track Do The Jay Jay is laced with such a familiraity its one of those songs you instantly feel like you have known forever and can’t understand why its never been made before. 

Although there is no denying a sense of surf pop and summer loving around these tracks there dark and eery nature makes them less inviting and more awkward then what you would expect from a band who’s hero is Brian Wilson, but it works. It really works, its heart breaking, its nostalgic and its utterly beautiful.