Once more unto the beach…

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If Quentin Tarantino is planning to throw a beach party this summer, he should book Two Wounded Birds as the entertainment.

Their great, new three-track Midnight Wave EP (out now & available on vinyl and download from Moshi Moshi Music) is an ideal soundtrack for teenage beat freaks to get down and dirty to. And the whole thing clocks in at around the six minute mark – just like those good, old fashioned seven inch pop singles that used to be all the rage.

All We Wanna Do is a glorious fuzzed-up racket – think The Ramones covering The Beachboys at breakneck speed – while groovy garage-rock-surf instrumental Do The Jay Jay has spooky organ that creeps up on you like the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

Then before you can even shout ‘Wipe Out’, the title track starts up with a long-lost Dick Dale twang and hits you like a six-foot swell. 

After crashing the party, our intrepid hero, Johnny Danger, disappears into the dead of night…. leaving us to clear up the carnage.

Heaven knows, I’m Misirlou now….

Surf’s up for 2011

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I’m a sucker for faded seaside glamour, ’50s cool, Phil Spector’s
Wall of Sound and surf-pop, which is why I have fallen head over heels
in love with Two Wounded Birds – my top tip for 2011.

You’d be forgiven for thinking that they hail from some cool Californian 
city, but the truth is they’re actually from Margate, the English
coastal town.

Their five-track debut EP Keep Dreaming Baby is a killer collection of
songs that sound like they were found nestling at the bottom of Brian
Wilson’s sand pit, or at the back of the cupboard where Richard Hawley
keeps his Brylcreem.

The title tune is gorgeous Good Vibrations-meets-garage-pop, while
Summer Dream is all early Beachboys and scuzzy, fuzzy Jesus and Mary
Chain teenage thrills.

It’s not all fun, fun, fun, mind – Two Wounded Birds can also
perfectly capture the other side of summer.

My Lonesome (my favourite song of theirs) is pure moody ’50s film
noir, with twanging guitars and creepy fairground organ – like a
soundtrack to David Lynch doing a surf movie.

Things get even spookier on I’ll Come And Get You – a twisted
Tarantinoesque tale of revenge – and Night Patrol – all rockabilly
riffing and murder and mayhem under the cover of darkness.

So come on in – the water’s lovely, but you’d better be careful,
because you never know what’s lurking just beneath the surface…

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