Kansas City and Lawrence area music blog Too Much Rock has a write up on the band’s recent show at Replay Lounge.
“It was 12:30 when Greg Wheeler and the Poly Mall Cops took the stage. Wheeler announced that the band intended to play twelve or thirteen songs in 30 minutes. And then the Iowan trio launched into a dynamite set of fuzzed-out punk & roll that nearly did that. Behind Wheeler’s guitar are Jill McLain-Meister on bass and Eric Hutchison on drums. They are the Poly Mall Cops and they wore the badges to prove it. The trio’s short songs are dumb and catchy. The clumsiest of which recall The Misfits or Ramones. The wittiest, Ex-Bats or Parquet Courts. That’s good company in my book. The set was built on the band’s brand-new album Manic Fever, with a few new ones tossed in as well. The chemistry between Wheeler and McLain-Meister was entertaining, but there was little time for banter as the band was in a race against the clock. In the end, the set went just past the 30-minute goal, in part due to an unplanned encore played to appease the zealous fans that weren’t ready to call it a night despite the late hour. I was smitten, so expect to read a lot more about the band on Too Much Rock in the future. You know, when I have time.”
Read the full review here.