Alicja Trout

Alicja Trout is a Memphis-based American rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and artist.

She is best known for her work with the synth-heavy Lost Sounds, which she started with Jay Reatard. Her current band, the River City Tanlines, were named an essential Memphis band by Spin Magazine in December 2007.^[1]

Trout also owns and operates Contaminated Records, her own independent record label. In 2009 she was featured on the MTV show $5 Cover.

Other musical projects

After the Lost Sounds "abruptly yet not unexpectedly" disbanded in May 2005, Trout's focus switched to the River City Tanlines, a more rock and roll oriented band.^[2] Trout has also played a part in a number of other Memphis-based rock bands, including: The Clears, The Fitts, The CC Riders, Mouserocket, Destruction Unit and Black Sunday.^[3]
In March 2016, Certified PR Records released a 12 inch LP record of her latest solo project, "Alicja-Pop!".^[4]. Currently Trout maintains River City Tanlines and Mouserocket, a re-boot of Lost Sounds titled Sweet Knives, and Fresh Flesh, a band where she is not the primary songwriter. Sweet Knives did a midwest/east coast tour in August 2016.

Selected discography

The Clears

• The Clears LP (Resort Theory Entertainment, 1997, RT 006)
• The Clears CD (Smells Like Records, 1997, SLR 23)

The Fitts

• I Can't Break Away 7" (Contaminated Records, 1998, CR 001)
• I Have To Laugh 7" (Big Neck Records!, 2003, BN-026)

The Lost Sounds

7-inch singles

• Lost Sounds 7" (Solid Sex Lovie Doll Records, 2000, SSLD 001)
• 1 + 1 = Nothing 7" (Empty Records US, 2001, MTR-387)
• No One Killer 7" (The Holy Cobra Society, 2004, THCS 004)
• Demos & Outtakes Vol. 2 3x7" (Rockin' Bones, 2004, RON 052)
• Motorcycle Leather Boy 7" (Tic Tac Totally, 2008, TTT-011)
• Split 7" w/ Vanishing (Cochon Records, 2003, Coch 012)

Albums

• Memphis Is Dead LP/CD (Big Neck Records!, 2001, BN-014)
• Black-Wave 2xLP/CD (Empty Records US, 2001, MTR-392)
• Outtakes & Demos Vol. 1 CD-R (Contaminated Records, 2001, no cat.no.)
• Outtakes & Demos Vol. 1 LP (Hate Records, 2002, hate 24)
• Recent Transmissions CD-R (Contaminated Records, 2002, no cat.no.)
• Rats Brains & Microchips LP/CD (Empty Records US, 2002, MTR-397)
• Demos II CD (On/On Switch, 2003, OOS/004)
• Future Touch 12"EP/CDEP (In The Red, 2004, ITR 115)
• Lost Sounds LP/CD (In The Red, 2004, ITR 117)
• Lost Lost: demos, sounds, alternate takes & unused songs 1999–2004 LP/CD (Goner, 2012, 84GONE)

Compilations inclusions

• Fields And Streams 2xCD (Kill Rock Stars, 2002, KRS-341)
• Pain In The Big Neck CD (Big Neck Records!, 2004, BN-035)
• Static Disaster The U.K. In The Red Records Sampler CD (In The Red, 2005, ITR 1313)
• We Hate The Underground CD (The Holy Cobra Society, 2006, HCS 005)

CC Riders

• Riders CD-R (Ft. Jay Reatard, Jeffrey Evans) (Contaminated Records, 2001, no cat.no. – Limited Edition of 100)

Mouserocket

• You're Alright 7" (Loverly Music, 1999, cat.no.?)
• Missing Teeth 7" (Wrecked Em Records, 2003, wrecked 005)
• Mouserocket CD (Empty Records US, 2004, MTR-403)

Alicja-Pop!

• Shining Apple b/w Walking The Cow (Daniel Johnston) 7" (Certified PR Records, 2010, CPR012)
• I Play The Fool b/w Water Death 7" (Certified PR Records, 2011, CPR019)
• Rats: Home Recordings 2009-2013 LP (Certified PR Records, 2016, CPR036)

Alicja Trout

• Close Ur Eyes b/w James ArthurGo West Old Bastards 7" (Spacecase Records, 2012, SCR002)

Destruction Unit

• My Disease 7" (Contaminated Records/Discos Cagados, 2001, cat.no.?)
• Let's Lie 7" (Disordered Records/Lo-Fi Records, 2008, DISO-002.5/LF-45010)
• Self Destruction Of A Man LP/CD (Empty Records US, 2004, MTR-401)
• Death To The Old Flesh LP/CD (Empty Records US, 2006, MTR-416)

Nervous Patterns

• Nervous Patterns CD-R (Contaminated Records, 2003, no cat.no.)
• Nervous Patterns LP (Cochon Records, 2004, Coch 015)

River City Tanlines

• Black Night 7" (Misprint Records, 2004, msp 0150)
• Gimme Whatever 7" (Goodbye Boozy Records, 2005, GB 23)
• The Devil Made Me Do It 7" (Contaminated Records, 2005, CR 006)
• Saw You Hiding 7" (KenRock, 2005, KEN42)
• Black Night 7" (Last Day Entertainment, 2007, LDE02)
• Modern Friction 7" (Savage Records, 2008, SAV 7017)
• Split 7" w/ The Intellectuals ("In My Mode Rollin) (Gonna Puke, 2007, GPK 018)
• I'm Your Negative LP (Dirtnap Records, 2006, ZZZ 67)
• Coast to Coast LP/CD (Big Legal Mess Records(USA), 2012, and MVP Records(Europe)))

Black Sunday

• I Can't Remember 7" EP (Neat Neat Neat Records, 2011, NNN-005)
• Can't Keep My Hands Off You / Lights 7" (Disordered/Red Lounge Records, 2009)
• Split 12" w/ Le Jonathan Reilly (Tic Tac Totally Records, 2007, TTT-010)
• I Don't Wanna Work 7" (Zaxxon Records, 2006, ZR 004)
• Dancing Knives 7" (Misprint Records, 2006, msp 0170)
• Cut Out 7" (Tic Tac Totally, 2006, TTT-002)
• Gli Amanti D'Oltretomba 7" (Solid Sex Lovie Doll Records, 2007, SSLD 031)
• Tronic Blanc LP/CD (Dirtnap Records, 2005, ZZZ 57)
• Black Rabbit Of Death CD-R (Contaminated Records, 2006, no cat.no.)

Sweet Knives

• Sound On Sound/Strange Animals 7" (Red Lounge Records RLR122 2016)
• Burnt Sienna Blues/I Don't Wanna See 7" (Red Lounge Records RLR120 2016)

as Daphne Diaphanous

• "Guntown" on The Sore Losers Soundtrack 2xLP/CD (Sympathy For The Record Industry, 1997, SFTRI 338)

References

Other sources

• Turn it Down Interview with Alicja
• Spin Magazine Memphis music feature
• Lost Sounds Web site
• Commercial Appeal Story

External links

• Contaminated Records Official Web site
• River City Tanlines on MySpace
• Art by Alicja Trout
• Contaminated Records on MySpace
• Certified PR Records website