Royal Trux
Thank You
(Hut, 1995)
Royal Trux
You know those kids from down the block, the ones your mom told you to keep clear of, the ones with the gray teeth and the black fingernails? If you held a microphone to their hearts, this is what you’d hear: riffs grinding like hips against rusted chrome fenders; gritty boot-heel melodies howled in a prowling cat-growl… Neil Hagerty and junkie goddess wife Jennifer Herrema’s major-label debut had fans of their early noisenik abstractions crying sellout, but the rest of us heard a hard, dark slab of rock, the sound of skinny-ass kids throwing beercans and riding dirtbikes out in that old field behind the fairgrounds. The sound of black asphalt stinking in July. A sound as decadent as a busted skateboard. Hagerty’s guitar chunks and choogles and blazes along like the wild younger brother of Keef himself, while Herrema purrs and sneers to make Kings Of Leon pee their pants. If this is what selling out sounds like, sign me up.
Further Listening:
Royal Trux – Pound For Pound (Domino)
The Rolling Stones – Exile On Main Street (Decca)
The Faces – A Nod Is As Good As A Wink… (Warner)
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 17/02/2008 on the Mojo Music Blog
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