With such a long break to contend with, White Stuff is a welcome return even if it is uneven. From the proto-shitgaze of 1990’s Twin Infinitives to the exploratory shapes of 1998’s Accelerator, Herrema and Hagerty tread wherever they please. With all that said, Royal Trux is more attitude than style. But songs such as the knowing Suburban Junky Lady are the equal of Royal Trux’s heyday, with new and.
In the 1990’s Royal Trux established themselves as one of the greatest rock groups of that hallowed era. Having the air of a late-life cash grab, White Stuff really should not be this much fun. Octagon-the unnecessary and frustratingly out of place Get Used to This). Indies Only on Orange with Yellow & Red Splatter Pizza coloured vinyl. Instead, we get a Kool Keith feature that finds more in common with recent Gorillaz than Dr. The cover alone promises of cocaine-fueled dBs rupturing eardrums and sweating through any set of speakers or headphones. While “Year of the Dog's effective two minutes and change and the appealing chug of Every Day Swan both make a solid case that Royal Trux reps rock’s last crusade, the overall sheen of White Stuff is contradictory. I'm just doing this as a favour to Fat Possum. 10 During an interview with The Guardian in March 2019 Hagerty announced he was leaving the band, stating 'I'm not touring. In “Sic Em Slow,” Hagerty laments, “Haters take a chainsaw to your soul / All because you dare to rock n’ roll,” one of many times that he and Herrema harp on the genre as if longing for the forgotten pre-Greta Van Fleet days or something. The band released their first studio album in 19 years, White Stuff, on March 1, 2019, on Fat Possum Records. Somehow the record sounds almost parodic - as if Herrema and Hagerty grasp two hands on the mic stand with a triumphant stage pose-and it’s difficult to tell if this is intentional or not. Consider the isolated and constrained guitar tones in Black Flag’s In My Head or the airy snare sounds in Kyuss’s 1991 release, Wretch.
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A series of resounding and polished snare beats drive the duo as they sing in unison, making “that white stuff” sound like fun.Įvoking an era of sonic trends in rock production that ties into the album’s rock-ist posturing, White Stuff is surprisingly easy on the ears. Royal Trux come back album White Stuff on limited edition purple cassette. Following a reissue campaign and the release of a live album in 2018 titled Platinum Tips + Ice Cream, Royal Trux (still the inebriated slur-as-art vocal of Jennifer Herrema and Neil Hagerty’s buzzing frets) successfully pick up from 2000’s Pound for Pound, rock radio/blues derivations competently managed for the album’s title track. White Stuff is the first studio album to emerge from Royal Trux in 19 years.
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