The band returned to Drag City in 1998 with Accelerator later that year, the simply named 3-Song EP arrived. The album brought Royal Trux to the attention of Virgin Records, who signed them to a deal in 1994 and released 1995's Thank You, which featured production by Neil Young collaborator David Briggs, and 1997's Sweet Sixteen. For 1993's Cats and Dogs, the pair enlisted a drummer, guitarist, and percussionist to flesh out the songs, which took a slightly more melodic, accessible direction than before. Two years later, Herrema and Hagerty issued the Untitled album, which was recorded on eight track and featured a more stripped-down sound. That year, the band self-released its eponymous debut album, and they soon signed to Drag City and Domino.Īfter a move to San Francisco, the duo released the experimental double album Twin Infinitives in 1990. Using blues progressions - as well as the work of Lou Reed, Television, and the Godz - as a foundation for their experiments, the duo's first recordings included "Fix-It," a track on Pussy Galore's 1987 album Right Now, and "Luminous Dolphin" and "Cut You Loose," which appeared on a 1988 ROIR cassette compilation. Herrema and Hagerty met in the Washington, D.C., area while they were still teenagers and formed Royal Trux after moving to New York City, where Hagerty was also playing with Pussy Galore. When the band reunited in the late 2010s for a reunion tour and 2019's White Stuff, they sounded as inimitable as ever. Over the years, their music evolved in unexpected ways that nevertheless felt organic, spanning the underground experiments of 1990's Twin Infinitives to the subversive boogie rock trilogy of 1998's Accelerator, 1999's Veterans of Disorder, and 2000's Pound for Pound. One of the definitive underground rock acts of the '90s and early 2000s, Royal Trux pioneered a unpredictable mix of punk, noise, metal, jazz, Southern rock, and pop that sounded effortless thanks to the chemistry between charismatic vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Jennifer Herrema and inventive guitarist Neil Hagerty.
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