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Former teenage stoners who yearn for the culturally incorrect Zeppelin records they sold off in college have a dependable friend in Royal Trux. The band has the Drag City stamp of hipster approval, yet they get to make strutting, ballsy guitar rock that channels British Invasion blues, Nuggets-era garage, and mid-70s Aerosmith, all the while pretending that punk never happened. How did Royal Trux get so lucky, to have their 'Brown Sugar' riff and play it, too? Maybe it's because some still look at what they do as some kind of 'commentary' on tired rock conventions, so they slip under the post-modern radar. If earlier, more difficult Royal Trux albums drew from non-mainstream skronk traditions, the albums they've made since leaving Virgin and returning to Drag City have been taking dramatic strides toward Freedom Rock territory. Pound for Pound, their second full-length in less than a year, continues this trend.
May 15, 2018 - Artist: Royal Trux Title Of Album: Pound for Pound Year Of Release: 2000 Label: Labels. Sri bhagavatam etv serial episodes free download. (2000) for review is also you can download free music. Royal Trux returned back to their old label Drag City. On Drag City, the band released Accelerator. They followed this album with Veterans of Disorder in 1999, and Pound for Pound in 2000. Royal Trux also released the triple-LP Singles, Live, Unreleased, as well as a pair of EPs and substantial video and webwork.
Oddly, it's both Royal Trux's most consistent record in some time and their least interesting. This means that while they avoid godawful eight-minute jams like 'Blue is the Frequency' (from last year's Veterans of Disorder) that always seemed tacked on to court the Wire Magazine set, they also fail to produce any breakout, ass-blowing songs like 'I'm Ready' or 'Yo Se!' Instead, we get a capable, uninspired homage at FM rock history. And it is homage, never theft. The circular chord progression, Latin-tinged bass and goofy conga fills of 'Small Thief' bear striking similarities to Santana's 'Black Magic Woman', true, but Neil Hagerty and Jennifer Herrema put their own unmistakable spin on the formula and make it their own. Same goes for the long, spacy 'Deep Country Sorcerer', which borrows bits of its melody from 'House of the Rising Sun'.
But these so-so tunes aren't going to be popping up on anyone's mix tapes in three or four years, so all we're left with is a handful of memorable riffs: 'Platinum Tips' has one almost Page-ian in its epic reach, but it lacks the round bottom of the master's finest. 'Sunshine and Grease' spotlights chords that almost make you forget the banal lyrics. (Almost.) And 'Dr. Gone' closes the album with a restatement of thesis, as the Trux drop a two-minute drum solo into the middle of a song the Carter-era J Geils Band would have been proud to call its own. My memory has just been sold.
On Pound for Pound, Royal Trux's second album within a year, the increasingly prolific group revisits the laid-back, scuzzy sound of albums like Thank You and Sweet Sixteen -- albeit with a warmer, cleaner production, not unlike the sound they gave the Make Up's In Mass Mind. Touted by their label as a 'party record,' Pound for Pound comes pretty close to living up to that description, alternating between summery, boogie rock-inspired numbers like 'Fire Hill' and 'Dr. Gone' and more aggressive rockers like 'Accelerator (The Original)' and 'Teenage Murder Mystery.' The Trux also find room for the almost-wistful summer love song 'Sunshine,' as well as the witchy blues-rock of 'Deep Country Sorcerer' and 'Small Thief,' and despite the sound-effects weirdness on 'Platinum Tips' and the trippy flutes on 'Blind Navigator,' this is their most straightforward collection of songs since their Virgin label output. Weighing in at a short and sweet ten tracks, Pound for Pound may not be as combustive or inventive as their recent output, but it reaffirms that there is plenty of room for just plain enjoyment in Royal Trux's subversive agenda. ~ Heather Phares.