A guitar group inspired by The Beach Boys, making fuzzy guitar pop? Ok, it’s been done a lot, especially this year, but it’s rarely done as confidently as this. ‘Keep Dreaming Baby’ is Two Wounded Birds debut e.p and it has safely secured their position as one of the most exciting young bands in Britain.
This is the first Physical release on Jacob Graham’s brilliant ‘Holiday Friends Records’ and the group’s sound isn’t a world away from that label’s other breakout acts The Drums, Young Friends and Surfer Blood. The title track and ‘Summer Dream’ are sunny, catchy, uptempo surf rock songs whilst the other three tunes on here are distinctly darker and more psychedelic in tone. If I have one complaint with the e.p it would be that it doesn’t really demonstrate their ability to do much else, all the songs are essentially following one of two templates and because of that they sound fairly similar. But this is a debut at the end of the day and there is more than enough time for them to experiment with ideas and styles.
‘Keeping Dreaming Baby’ is one of the best British debuts of the year and if they can impress supporting The Drums on their UK tour then Two Wounded Birds could find themselves being one of 2011’s most talked about groups.
8/10