ROYAL TRUX - UNTITLED(REMASTERED) WHITE VINYL

Royal Trux's 1992 self-titled debut was a fair old statement of intent. Hagerty’s strained guitar extrapolations and Harrema’s 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 band’s 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 Hagerty’s vocal phrasing on ‘Andersonville’ before it builds from a stumbling mesh of improvisation into a splenetic thunderstorm and back again. It’s a record brimming with ideas.

Remastered - available on White Vinyl.

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