MUSIC REVIEW - Sleeping in the Aviary

SLEEPING IN THE AVIARY - Expensive Vomit in a Cheap Motel
The blurb that the promotions agency put on this album compares them to Neutral Milk Hotel, The Buzzcocks, and The Violent Femmes. Whether these are appropriate comparisons or not is a matter for debate, but Sleeping in the Aviary are most definitely on that level of musicianship. The songs are both complex and easily followed, and feature the type of song-writing that conjures specific memories from the listeners life while speaking to a general audience. The music itself is rooted in garage rock, but seems to have taken an indie detour somewhere along the way - the promotions agency claim this is a departure from their previous albums, but I cannot speak to that. These guys deserve to be charted by us. Will I play it on my show? Hell yes. RIYL - Tilly and the Wall (minus the tap dancing), old White Stripes, Neutral Milk Hotel.

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