Blog: SoundsXP

The Wind Up Birds are a quirky Leeds punk-pop band with an Art Brut-ian line in smart lyrics. Take ‘Meet Me At the Depot’, which is an ode to escaping when “there’s fire in your belly and nothing on the telly”. Cleverly there’s a hint of pathos to balance the comedy, all set to an addictive driving indiepop rhythm. ‘Popman’, which is definitely not a B-side, concerns “being surreal about delivery people” and has the classic line: “I’m not talking about the eggman/ no way/ that was the Beatles”. This is guitar pop freighted with punchy [...]