Royal Trux – Untitled (Vinyl)

Royal Trux’s 1992 self-titled debut was a fair old statement of intent. Hagertys strained guitar extrapolations and Harremas fag-end bark were already present and correct, as was the unstable relationship between song and sound that would dominate their early efforts.

Opening with the detuned Beefheartian riffage of Bad Blood, an angry curse of a song, it would be hard to pinpoint the era of recording should you come to it cold. The Sixties loom large in the bands sonic palette, the influence not only of garage rock, but also free jazz and psychedelic experimentation plain to see. Incineration slyly walks the line between brutal rock decimation and cartoon blues devilment; Strawberry Soda is pure garage rock with an utterly diminished libido; shades of Don Van Vliet return in Hagertys vocal phrasing on Andersonville before it builds from a stumbling mesh of improvisation into a splenetic thunderstorm and back again. Its a record brimming with ideas.

Remastered – available on White Vinyl.

Tracklist:
Move
Hallucination
Junkie Nurse
Sometimes
Lightning Boxer
Blood Flowers
Sun On The Run