ROKY ERICKSON WITH OKKERVIL RIVER / ロッキー・エリクソン & オッカーヴィル・リヴァー / TRUE LOVE CAST OUT ALL EVIL (LP) / レコード

USサイケデリック界の生き字引、ロッキー・エリクソンが遂に新作をリリース!!

一昨年、MOGWAIのシングルにも参加したロッキーですが、本作は近年 交流の深い、オルタナ・カントリーの雄OKKERVIL RIVER(SHAGGSと同郷であるニュー・ハンプシャー出身の3人組)を引き連れ録音を決行。オルタナ・カントリーの都とも呼ばれるヒューストンだけ に、この結合は自然の成り行きといえるでしょう!! 実に14年振りとなるこの新作は70年代の精神崩壊時代に書かれた楽曲も存在し、豊かなアレンジメント をバックにいまにも消え入りそうなロッキーの歌声が見事に調和を取っています。


Legendary musician Roky Erickson triumphantly returns with True Love Cast Out All Evil, his first new album in fourteen years, produced by Will Sheff from Okkervil River, and featuring Will and Okkervill as Erickson’s backing band. True Love Cast Out All Evil is comprised largely of unreleased songs that Austin native Erickson wrote throughout his decades‐long career . detailing with heart‐breaking candor a harrowing life that has included shock treatment, imprisonment, mental illness, and irreversible loss. With a wisdom that can only be marshaled by someone who has been through all of this, Erickson also interjects the songs with love, hope, and spiritual grace.

While True Love Cast Out All Evil echoes the many musical styles in which Erickson has been a participant or a pioneer . including garage‐rock, lo‐fi psych, heavy metal, and countrytinged Texas folk . it also moves Erickson into new territory, foregrounding his songwriting skill. In these songs, Erickson addresses his troubled history in his own words, eschewing the metaphors of earlier songs like “I Walked with a Zombie” to speak directly about hardship and the lessons learned from it. Will Sheff’s production highlights the songs while interweaving them with found‐sound and archival recordings culled from Erickson’s home videos and recordings made in the Rusk State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.

This is not a cynical comeback record, a lukewarm update on an established legacy . these are the best songs Roky has ever written, unreleased due to decades of personal problems.


・The reverberations of Erickson’s band The Thirteenth Floor Elevators can still be heard today, with Erickson’s songs having been interpreted by the likes of R.E.M., ZZ Top, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Primal Scream, Spacemen 3, Television, Julian Cope, and others.

・Okkervil River catalog has soundscanned over 226,000 records to date.

・The 2005 documentary film You’re Gonna Miss Me introduced the life and music of Roky Erickson to a new generation.


1. Devotional Number One
2. Ain't Blues Too Sad
3. Goodbye Sweet Dreams
4. Be and Bring Me Home
5. Bring Back the Past
6. Please, Judge
7. John Lawman
8. True Love Cast Out All Evil
9. Forever
10.Think Of as One
11.Birds'd Crash
12.God Is Everywhere