Wax Museums
Eye Times
Trouble In Mind
Rating: 4 out of 5

Link: http://www.myspace.com/thewaxmuseums

It’s refreshing to see a band take the punk rock torch and continue the Texas tradition of incredibly futile and inspirational punk rock. Stemming from a scene that fueled MDC, The Dicks, and The Big Boys — to name a few — the Wax Museums continue down that path of chaotic and audacious simplicity. I have never been more raged and contemplative about pancakes until I listened to “Breakfast For Dinner.”

After a three-year-hiatus the Wax Museums are back and ready to get sloppy in their sexually frustrated intensity. “Midlife Crisis” spins like a Sex Pistols song while “Sunburn” with its self-explanatory lyrics looks to the West Coast and bands like the Circle Jerks and Crucial Youth to get the pit moving.

You feel the band’s persistent awkwardness on “Matter Over Mind” just as much as you feel their triumph on “Nothing To Do (With The 60s).” There is a shimmer of art rock to their twitchiness.

And the album cover is almost worth the weight itself, looking like an old Flaming Lips album cover or some kid who was inspired from the Grey’s Anatomy book in anatomy class to spend more time creating that piece of artwork than pay attention in class.
Listening to an album like this makes me want to go back and check out their other projects The Bad Spots and Mind Spiders because if they are anything like Wax Museums, the members in this band might be fueling a resurgent scene that is worthy you should pay attention to.

Once you hear Eye Times will you won’t forget it. It’s punk rock the way it should be and always have been.