Greg Wheeler & The Poly Mall Cops Share New Single “Slimephone (You Can’t Hide)”

Greg Wheeler And The Poly Mall Cops return today with a new twisted journey into the heart of modern American living. On new single and video, Slimephone (You Can’t Hide), the Des Moines based trio wield fuzzed out guitar hooks and ripping beats to dispatch an acutely self-aware treatise on the toxic allure of technology. The track is the first release from the band’s second album, Slimephone Surveillance, which will arrive on October 24th courtesy of High Dive Records. This new album follows a ripping sonic trajectory previously outlined on the band’s 2023 outing, Manic Fever, where vintage punk spirit is distilled in an Iowa basement into a potent 21st century Garage Rock cocktail. While Manic Fever was created in a drawn out process amongst the pandemic, Slimephone Surveillance arrives with a fresh urgency as Wheeler & co emerge from isolation and seek to navigate life in a newly messed up world.

“We’re so in love with our smartphones that we’ve willingly given away our privacy and our autonomy.  We allow our every move to be monitored by big tech, strangers, ex-lovers, family, friends, etc. It’s scary shit and I’m often struck by how weird it really is. We’re complacent with our loss of solitude.” (frontman Greg Wheeler)