Ok, so I knew I was going to like JJ Got Live RaTX, the new album from RTX before I even bought it. I've been a fan of Jennifer Herrema's previous band with former husband Neil Hagerty, The Royal Trux, for quite some time. Unlike the Royal Trux, which was more of a controlled chaos of artsy, psyched-out rock and roll, Herrama's new project (minus Hagerty) lets it's (her) hair down and turns the damn amps up to, well you know, ELEVEN! You know you're in for a ride as the album opens with swirling talk box guitar riffs and menacing synths before the whiskey fueled rawk'n roll comes crashing down on you. If you're not privy to the growling vocal stylings of Jennifer Herrema (pictured below), then you are missing out on what I consider to be the current female face of American rock and roll. Simply, she has more balls than all the dudes in your boyfriend's band.
Read the Quietus review here.
"We’re a thousand miles from the late and frankly fucking awfully idiotic Darkness, and JJ Got Live RaTX will make the new preposterously named Guns ‘N’ Roses album (due out in 3045) sound like the limp-wristed has-been that it will inevitably be."
If you like RTX then go back and check out The Royal Trux. Singles, Live, Unreleased is a good place to start.
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