Royal Trux - White Stuff

Pitchfork 78

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.

The Guardian 60

(Fat Possum)

Few bands are as dysfunctional as Royal Trux, reunited after 13 years in which they only communicated when one of their cats died. Starting in 1988, these two co-dependent former addicts – Neil Hagerty and Jennifer Herrema – made 10 albums of curdled rock that packed in sonic adventurism, a Rolling Stones fixation, and the kind of swagger that was never far from squalor.

One eventually committed the other to an institution, so this 11th Trux album is truly unexpected – an outing constructed with the aid of email and an engineer to keep the fragile détente on course. Hagerty wanted to call the album Championship Pizza. Herrema won.