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Classic Album Review: Royal Trux | 3-Song EP

The junkie rockers whet your appetite for their next album with this solid EP.

This came out in 1998 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):

 


Life back on indie street seems to agree with Royal Trux.

Since they bailed on their major-label deal recently, they put out last spring’s Accelerator, their best album so far. Now they’ve followed it up with this solid, albeit unimaginatively titled EP. Spacey guitarist Neil Hagerty and acid-throated singer Jennifer Herrema show off the full range of their shambling junkie blues here — you get one nod-off duet, one drug freakout and one boogie-rock classic. They add up to everything you need to whet your appetite for their next trip.