Exclusively from Electric Talon Records, Silver Tongued Devil is the new single from proud American, Wax Mekanix. Feeling like a shaky and snotty clarion call to the governed to put leadership on notice, it is a hypnotic, throbbing, serrated, abrasive, unsettling first-person account of the building tension as the USA once again flails toward a clash of ideologies in this generation’s existential showdown.
Although there is a taut and quivering thread of thematic connection to his previous records, Mobocracy, Blunt, and Psychotomimetic, Wax mixes influences from Trent Reznor’s Nine Inch Nails, Rob Zombie, Billie Eilish, David Bowie, Neil Young, and Bob Dylan, into an ominous stew that signals yet another head-snapping stylistic jerk of the wheel, as he careens toward whatever creative horizon is filling his windshield. Keep your hands and feet inside the ride, and strap in, kids.
“I love my country, but I’m feeling like the pond reflecting the oncoming stone,” Wax explains. “I’m seeing a homeland of track-scabbed political junkies in some kind of infinite loop of cold turkey attempts. America has been gleefully mainlining recreational outrage, lies, grift, deception, word salads, zone flooding, and general skullduggery as we retreat to our ideological silos for the big election.”
