Royal Trux - Live - Platinum Tips + Ice Cream

  by Maarten Schiethart

published: 17 / 3 / 2018




Royal Trux - Live - Platinum Tips + Ice Cream


Label: Domino Records
Format: CD
Excellent live 'best of' from Neil Hagerty and Jennifer Herrema who after fifteen years apart reformed Royal Trux for gigs in New York and LA.



Review

Silly billy noise or mean and sleazy pranksters? Royal Trux manage to be still both. While 'Mercury', for example, is simply wacky fun, Royal Trux at another level still are this steamrolling bunch of punks. Wild and wonderful on 'Waterpark' and even on a flat-sounding song like 'Platinum Tips', Royal Trux maintain a zany and electrifying line. There is plenty of mirth on 'The Banana Question' which makes me start to wonder why I've never seen Royal Trux live. Underneath the grit and grime, I only now detect playful joy. Even a sober soul could become intoxicated. On the last track 'Ice Cream' they're again these charming but creepy psychos. On their studio albums I thought of them as freeform punks but live Royal Trux show themselves to have been great entertainers on at least two occasions recently.



Track Listing:-

1 Junkie Nurse
2 Sewers Of Mars
3 Red Tiger
4 Sometimes
5 Mercury
6 Esso Dame
7 Deafer Than Blind
8 Waterpark
9 Platinum Tips
10 The Banana Question
11 Blue Is The Frequency
12 Ice Cream


Band Links:-

https://en-gb.facebook.com/royaltruxx/
https://www.fatpossum.com/artists/roya
https://www.instagram.com/therealroyal


Label Links:-

http://www.dominorecordco.com/
https://www.facebook.com/DominoRecordC
https://twitter.com/DominoRecordCo
https://www.youtube.com/user/DominoRec
https://plus.google.com/+DominoRecords



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