Sleeping in the Aviary was an indie rock band established in Madison, Wisconsin, but which was based in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota at the time they broke up in 2012.

[1] Their musical style has been compared to that of "early XTC and Talking Heads,"[2] Violent Femmes, Nirvana, Neutral Milk Hotel,[3] and Bon Iver.

[9] Later that year, they promoted their fourth album, You and Me, Ghost, by making a 13-minute infomercial described by the Minnesota Daily as "a tongue-in-cheek homage to all those late-night advertisements you’ve probably fallen asleep to once or twice.

[14] A Punknews.org reviewer described the band's debut album, Oh, This Old Thing?, as "snotty, fuck-all lo-fi power-pop,"[15] while Wisconsin Public Television described their style as "country-punk-rock.

[18] A Minnesota Daily review of You and Me, Ghost wrote that "Perhaps Sleeping in the Aviary’s most commendable feat is their ability to take some of the most basic elements of early rock ‘n’ roll and mold their music into something that sounds entirely original" and concluded that the band was "this city’s best-kept secret" [referring to Minneapolis].