I have been obsessing about the new Roky Erickson and Okkervil River album, named "True Love Cast Out All Evil", that came out this April 20th on Anti records.I just love Roky Erickson: it's not about his life and all the details and whatever. It's about Roky's voice traveling across hearts, years after he'll be long gone. It's about lyrics that haunt rooms. Will Sheff (of Okkervil River) knows his Roky stuff and definately has given serious thought in the way he wanted this to go: the songs have been handpicked between 60 songs that Roky wrote over the years. He has done a clever job, taking Roky's powers (truth, lyrics, voice) and letting them blossom in a musical universe filled with haunting/ear annoying noises that contradict the anthemic melodies. If there is one way to treat a simple, jaw-dropping, haunted song like "Goodbye Sweet Dreams", there you have it.
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