Who would have thought this little garage punk band would get a glowing review in a major publication with Ozzy on the cover? UK publication Classic Rock Magazine reviewed Greg Wheeler and the Poly Mall Cops’ new album “Slimephone Surveillance” in their most recent issue’s “sleaze round up.” 

“Are you ready for slime rock? Greg and his weirdo friends pour on the ooze with this brief-but-beefy col­lec­tion of bad-time rockers. I’ve spent time in their homet­own of Des Moines, Iowa, and within three hours I thought I would die of sheer bore­dom, so I get the angst, the itch and the fist-throw­ing aggression of this record. It’s laced with fuzzy, lacer­at­ing gui­tars, and vocals that sound like a car­toon vil­lain scream­ing through a bull­horn. It’s like The Mum­mies with the But­thole Surfers’ pen­chant for improvisational fuck-arounds. Or The Briefs over­dos­ing on testoster­one. Or The Mis­fits record­ing demos over the (slime) phone. You get it, right? It’s max­imum rock’n’roll recor­ded so far in the red the mixer prob­ably burst into flames. While the whole thing is a total jam­mer, the big hit has gotta be Slimephone (You Can’t Hide From Me), a blast of manic rage’n’roll that rides on a tough Black Flag-y riff that sounds like it could lit­er­ally strangle you. My abso­lute fave thing for at least the next 10 minutes.”

The review was accompanied by a killer band photo taken by the great Alyssa Leicht!