5 songs that sound exactly like five of the sweetest things to have come out of the Twin Cities thus far in 2010. - S. Kelly / borangutan.com Having two bandleaders can be tricky, but National Bird's dueling frontmen, Casey Nelson and Dan Wenz, did a fine job whittling their respective singer/songwriter styles and myriad influences into one cohesive, tight, hard-popping five-song EP - Chris Riemenschneider / Star Tribune With two songwriters and singers, the band managed to write and record five distinct tunes that don't sound much alike but still feel like they've come from the same source. Think of the Jayhawks' less country, more pop moments and you're halfway there. - Ross Raihala / Pioneer Press Lead single "In Summer" is a sinewy slab of sweltering and sinister pop-rock, with a choral guitar hook a mile wide that Spoon would be proud to call their own. "Physical Fitness" chugs along with lock-step concision, bowling over the listener with barbed-wire riffage and exiting stage right in a shade over two and a half minutes. - City Pages / Rob van Alstyne