Royal Trux
| Royal Trux | |
|---|---|
 Royal Trux (1993) |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | skirt |
| founding | 1987 |
| resolution | 2001 |
| Founding members | |
| Neil Hagerty | |
singing |
Jennifer Herrema |
Royal Trux was an American rock band . The core members were Jennifer Herema and Neil Hagerty. Other session musicians took part in the recordings, but did not become permanent members of the band.
history
In 1987 Hagerty was guitarist with the avant-garde Noise band Pussy Galore in Washington DC, but at the same time he began to realize his own artistic ideas and founded the band Royal Trux with his girlfriend Jennifer Herema. Their first album was released in 1987 with the title Royal Trux on the independent label Drag City . Former Pussy Galore members later formed The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and Boss Hog .
After the couple moved to San Francisco, they released the double album Twin Infinitives in 1990 . Classic song structures are dissolved in it, the music is mostly dissonant. The British music magazine Melody Maker wrote in 1993 about the album:
"Royal Trux really started to get attention with the follow-up, 1990's 'Twin Infinitives', an added sprawl of inspired self-indulgence and lo-fi experimentalism that defies description. Comparison's with Captain Beefheart 's ' Trout Mask Replica ' or Can ’s 'Tago Mago' apply only in so far that this formidably, forbiddingly unhinged record seems to have slipped free of the physical laws that govern terrestrial music. "
After the indie rock hype triggered by Nirvana , Royal Trux got a contract with the major label Virgin . After two albums Thank You (1995) and Sweet Sixteen (1997) the contract was terminated.
The band then returned to their old label, where they released Accelerator in April 1998 . The track Juicy, Juicy, Juice on Accelerator got airtime on some German radio stations. B. at the ignition radio of the BR, which increased the band's awareness in Germany.
On Accelerator followed in 1999 Veterans of Disorder , on this album makes Royal Trux a trip through several subgenres of rock.
After the release of Pound for Pound in June 2000, Hagerty and Herema split. Hagerty started a solo project under the name Neil Michael Hagerty, from which the band The Howling Hex emerged. Herema released an album on Drag City in 2004 with her band RTX.
style
Royal Trux's music contains elements of noise and is often dissonant . According to Haggerty, the entire work of Royal Trux is harmonious ( see also: Ornette Coleman ).
“But underneath all the weird shit, we still had our roots, the music we loved at school like AC / DC , Led Zep , Stones . We still judged everything in terms of whether it was lame or rocking. "
Twin Infinitives was inducted into The Wire's 100 Records That Set The World On Fire (While No One Was Listening) .
Discography
- Royal Trux , 1988
- Twin Infinitives , 1990
- Royal Trux (Third Album) , 1992
- Cats & Dogs , 1993
- Thank You , 1995
- Sweet Sixteen , 1997
- Singles, Live, Unreleased , 1997
- Accelerator , 1998
- Veterans of Disorder , 1999
- Pound for Pound , 2000
- Hand of Glory , 2002
- White Stuff , 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 'The Kings of F *** ed-Up Shit'. In: Melody Maker , June 19, 1993. ( www.rtxarchive.com ( Memento of the original from August 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to instructions and then remove this notice. )
