The three mad scientists in Portland's Wax Fingers have just emerged from their laboratory with their self-titled debut LP, a record that throws everything but the proverbial kitchen sink into the mix...Wax Fingers' songs move, and they explode at just the right times. Pop hooks lurk underneath the band's squirrelly guitar and synth attack—and, of course, the more you listen, the more noises will start to emerge...
– Portland Mercury
So Wax Fingers are on a dangerous expedition, but the trio isn’t stupid. From the band’s biggest risks—the tweaker island beat of “20/20”; the barreling, slightly nuts “Skeleton Key”—it is yielding big rewards. This untamed music is a balancing act, and right now everything is in balance for Wax Fingers....
– Willamette Week
The entire album plays like a Mothers of Invention acid trip compilation, pitting highly technical guitar tapping and effects-whipped wails, deft drumming and keys into a frenzy of melting perceptions Dali himself would most likely herald. No two songs sound the same. No one is safe from hyperbole...
– The Deli Portland
Busy in the studio, Wax Fingers have a new arsenal to draw from, and it’s some of the smartest music in the present Portland circuit. Built out of the same math-rock backbone, there’s a new layer of tempered chaos. There’s percussion all over the stage, from where it’s expected on the trap set to electric guitar neck plucking and rhythm guitar hammering. It’s as though Yes were reunited and asked to cover Animal Collective’s Feels.
– Willamette Week
With one foot planted firmly in an experimental psychedelic stew, and the other tippy-toed on a tight wire of spastic instrumental noodling, Wax Fingers succeed in injecting their plunky pop with depth, but without the pretension…
– The Deli Portland
Local standout Wax Fingers is a trio of musically intrepid laborers, constructing exploratory brain-rock tracks of immense feeling and discipline. Often substituting lyrics for funky, ever-transitioning guitarspeak, Wax Fingers embodies artful minimalism. Its gusto emanates from radiating strings and complex percussion instead…
– Willamette Week
When a group like Wax Fingers sends me a track, I just feel blessed to live where I live.
– Casey Jarman, Willamette Week
Committed to its quest of shaking loose paint off walls through lush, experimental jams that corkscrew up and down like a carnival ride. It’s effectual prog-rock with a dash of black magic and whale song…
– Willamette Week
