Thank You by Royal Trux [VINYL]
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Performer Notes:
- Royal Trux: Jennifer Herrema (vocals), Neil Hagerty (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Dan Brown (bass), Chris Pyle (drums), Robbie Armstrong (percussion).
- Recorded at Kiva Studios, Memphis, Tennessee.
- All songs written by Neil Hagerty and Jennifer Herrema.
- I realize that this runs contrary to the beliefs of longtime Royal Trux fans, but the more Royal Trux resembles a standard rock band, the better they sound. If you want a little guitar skronk with your sci-fi surrealism (as in Herrema's lyrics), but like a little funky backbeat now and again, this is Royal Trux at their scuzzy best. It's still not for the weak, nor for those who like pretty melodies or great musicianship. But for the rest of us who like the occasional run through the jungle, songs like "The Sewers of Mars" and "You're Gonna Lose" are prime chunks of non-commercial alternative rock. It's a safe bet to assume that more '90s bands will continue to appropriate '70s rock stylings, but few will do it with the panache of Royal Trux. ~ John Dougan
Professional Reviews: Rolling Stone (6/29/95, pp.42-43) - 3.5 Stars - Very Good - "...Royal Trux rise far above the anemic run of alternative product now deluging us. Long may they run."
Spin (3/95, pp.98-99) - 8 - Highly Recommended - "...Sticky Fingered to the max, its sinewy riffs, grinding bass, and seething percussion harking back to `Can't You Hear Me Knocking?'....They funk, in that fierce white-boy fashion that early-'70s rock had down pat, but which punk extinguished..."
Entertainment Weekly (2/24-3/3/95, p.119) - "...By imposing some structure on their stumblebum blues jams and stream-of-consciousness lyrics, these junk-rockers manage to arrive at a sound somewhere between Sonic Youth and the Black Crowes on their major-label debut..." - Rating: B
Q (3/95, p.103) - 3 Stars - Good - "...[THANK YOU is] a stewveers away from Stooges-style primeval ooze to Black Crowes and Exile-period Stones. The attempt to become a real, songwriting band is pretty successful..."
Alternative Press (5/95, pp.77-79) - "...THANK YOU, the band's foray into major-label territory, falls into the garage-rock category. The same seedy, tawdry, metaphysical trailer-parks in which Royal Trux have always shacked up abound on these songs about sewers, infections, breakdowns, drugs and sex. Thankfully or not, Royal Trux are still disconcerting..."
Option (7-8/95, p.133) - - "...The band never exalted noise--it excreted it. Neil Hagerty and Jennifer Herrema's ambition was to form the residue of rock, the unsublimated return of everthing teenage music had ever repressed in the age of commercialism...the ultimate indie move..."
NME (Magazine) (2/25/95, p.41) - 8 - Excellent - "...THANK YOU is the record Keef never made because he was too wasted to get it together...a lizard-throated, dry bone marrow cancerous croak of an LP, guitars like lazy slashing back alley razors, nonchalant in the midst of all this dirty narcotic danger..."
Format: Vinyl (1 Disc); Stereo
Release Date: 19 October, 2010
Label: Plain
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