After Thank You and 1997's Sweet Sixteen failed to realize Virgin's dreams of turning Royal Trux into the next Black Crowes ( the puke-stained album covers probably didn't help), Singles, Live, Unreleased heralded the band's eventual return to the weird with 1998's fuzzed-out triumph Accelerator. Originally released in 1997 (and now reissued in unchanged form), Singles, Live, Unreleased was more than just a stop-gap measure between albums it also represented a symbolic homecoming to Drag City after a brief stint on Virgin that constituted one of the more bizarre byproducts of the post- Nirvana major-label signing blitz. But for newcomers, it's the stand-alone release that provides the best big-picture perspective of Royal Trux's see-saw relationship with rock music and the avant-garde. As a 3xLP collection of the band's early-90s ephemera, Singles, Live, Unreleased may not seem like the most logical entry point into the Trux's phantasmagoric universe. Given their amorphous aesthetic- which yielded works as incongruous as 1990's byzantine bricolage Twin Infinitives, 1995's biker-bar boogie-fest Thank You, and 2000's ghetto-blasted breakdance-athon Radio Video EP- there is no truly definitive Royal Trux album, a fact reflected by the band's myriad contemporary admirers, who range from Bradford Cox, Liars, and the Kills to Bat for Lashes, Hot Chip, and MGMT.
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