In typical Grand Royal fashion,
Scapegoat Wax are all over the musical map on their debut album. Hip-hop, pop, folk, and rock mix and merge on an album that never quite amounts to the sum of its parts. There are some good moments here ("Aisle 10 [Hello Allison]" is amusingly scattershot, in a post-Beck kinda way), but there's just as much flotsam floating around. Head
Goat Marty James' grand ambition is grounded by overall lack of direction. ~ Michael Gallucci