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defrogSome of you know my affinity for Roky Erickson, whose backstory is the stuff of rock’n’roll legend. He’s also an admittedly acquired taste for most people, given his obsessions with the occult and horror movies, though there was always more to him than that.
Anyway, his mental condition has limited his output, but he has a new album out now, with Okkervil River as his back-up band. It’s his first studio album since 1995. And while it may not win over a lot of new fans, I think his existing fan base will dig it.
At least I do. It might depend on whether you prefer Roky in acoustic/reflective mode or demon-obsessed rock mode. I confess to preferring the latter, but what really makes this album work is Okkervil River’s musical style, which blends feedback and soundbites from Roky’s home videos to create probably the closest thing we’ll ever hear to what the music in Roky’s head must sound like before it comes out. So even the quieter songs sound as though they’re being transmitted from another dimension.
Listen.
It says a lot that you kind of have to listen to the whole album to get the full impact of what they’ve done here. Listening to just one track doesn’t cut it.
It’s that good.
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bedsitter23 for hipping me to this.
Relaxing souls on the dotted lines,
This is dF
Anyway, his mental condition has limited his output, but he has a new album out now, with Okkervil River as his back-up band. It’s his first studio album since 1995. And while it may not win over a lot of new fans, I think his existing fan base will dig it.
At least I do. It might depend on whether you prefer Roky in acoustic/reflective mode or demon-obsessed rock mode. I confess to preferring the latter, but what really makes this album work is Okkervil River’s musical style, which blends feedback and soundbites from Roky’s home videos to create probably the closest thing we’ll ever hear to what the music in Roky’s head must sound like before it comes out. So even the quieter songs sound as though they’re being transmitted from another dimension.
Listen.
It says a lot that you kind of have to listen to the whole album to get the full impact of what they’ve done here. Listening to just one track doesn’t cut it.
It’s that good.
PRODUCTION NOTE: Shout-out to
bedsitter23 for hipping me to this.Relaxing souls on the dotted lines,
This is dF
