Sick Myth by Big Bill

Sick Myth by Big Bill

As reiterated recently by  Green Blah! , an excellent documentary about Green Bay’s fertile punk-rock scene during the late 1970s and 1980s, goofiness can be just as substantial an element in that music as any serious intent or primitive execution. Big Bill already knows it. 

On its fourth studio LP,  Sick Myth , the Austin, Texas quartet doesn’t hide the influence of the Dead Milkmen, infamous for cult classics like “Bitchin’ Camaro” and MTV-famous for “Punk Rock Girl.” The second track here, “Still Cold,” could be a Milkmen B-side with its herky-jerky rhythm, carnival organ, and comically longsuffering details from a narrator who works at the morgue.

Lead “singer” Eric Braden draws from a history of nerdy frontmen, including Milo Aukerman of the Descendents [