Sleeping in the Aviary "GloWorm" & "Maureen" (10.7 MB) from Oh, This Old Thing? King Club Madison, WI March 30, 2007

I listened to Sleeping in the Aviary's record a couple times last week, and I was struck by how good it was. A lot of the songs -- despite being just fragments in some cases -- have a really bright pop sheen to them, which is just the opposite of the lo-fi buzz that my mind expects; the first of these two songs is particularly surprising to listen to when you haven't heard it in a while. I wonder if that has to do with how popular they seem to be in the local scene -- the King Club was fairly packed for their opening set at this show, but had thinned out a bit by the time the headlining, and CD-releasing Nervous System took the stage.