Royal TruxBest Royal Trux Albums Ranked
7.5
Avg Score
11
Opinions
9
Albums
5
Reviewers
Summary from 11 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Royal Trux's catalog across 9 albums from 11 opinions, with an overall average of 7.5/10. The top-rated Royal Trux album is Accelerator (1998) with a 8.8/10 average from 1 rating, followed by The Radio Video EP and Singles, Live, Unreleased. The discography on Wavelength spans 1992 to 2019.
Accelerator
“The final album in Royal Trux's deal with Virgin Records, a record Virgin didn't put out, is the most openly celebratory yet perversely strange entry in the dirtbag-rock duo's canon. Accelerator sounds every bit as absurd, chaotic, and exhilarating as it did 14 years ago.”
Singles, Live, Unreleased
“Throughout their 12-year run, Neil Hagerty and Jennifer Herrema took a chop-shop approach to pop history. This 1997 compilation represented the duo's symbolic homecoming to Drag City after a brief stint on Virgin that constituted one of the more bizarre byproducts of the post-Nirvana major-label signing blitz.”
Hand of Glory
“Royal Trux's 1990 four-song album *Twin Infinitives* holds an odd position in the canon of drug music. Neil "Michael" Hagerty and Jennifer Herrema have said that although the album itself wasn't composed while under the influence (a dubious statement to say the least), it was "quality-tested" while high on such colorful narcotic selections as marijuana, LSD, speed, heroin, and more. Alternately so”
3-Song EP
“Drag City's reissue of 3-Song EP, a collection which initially appeared just four months after their 1998 knockout Accelerator, seemingly could’ve been tacked onto the recent re-release of that album. But to do so would’ve been to undermine another crucial turning point in the band’s labyrinthine course.”
White Stuff
“Perhaps their reunion is already doomed, but for the first time in almost two decades, this haywire tandem goes wild with their singularly subversive rock’n’roll.”
Platinum Tips + Ice Cream
“The duo’s first album in 17 years is a surprisingly practical gesture, a career-spanning live album that connects the accessible and impenetrable extremes of the Trux discography.”
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