Royal Trux: Royal Trux
Ian Christe, Alternative Press, August 1993
ROYAL TRUX is as much a rockn roll fairy tale as a musical ethos, a terribly incomplete story without the first chapter. This inspirational 1988 release reveals the band in its infancy, loosely stringing together all manner of haphazard guitar riffs with canned beats, warbled horns and pianos to create an accidental rock classic.
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