Royal Trux

Royal Trux, “Royal Trux” (Drag City, 1993; original release 1988)
This debut by the Sonny and Cher of the post-competence-rock underground is still the best of their many fine records, in my book. Early-Stones-indebted flat-affect treble blues gets squashed cubist-style or stretched out into eerie DeChirico desert-scapes. Rhythms that move like their shoelaces are tied together make the urban-decay mantras of the lyrics that much more tantalizing and haunting.
Try 1, 8, 12, 14, 15
4/7/19