On June 7, the British label Sonic Cathedral will release “The Psychedelic Sounds of the Sonic Cathedral”, a tribute album to Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elevators. It features Roky songs interpreted by My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields (joining Le Volume Courbe), the Black Angels (joined by Roky himself), A Place to Bury Strangers, Dead Meadow, and more.
Fourteen years after his last album of original material, psych-rock legend and onetime 13th Floor Elevators frontman Roky Erickson is readying a new record called “True Love Cast Out All Evil”, out April 20 via Anti- in the USA. The UK release will come on June 7 via Chemikal Underground.
And he got some top-shelf help to bring his songs to life: fellow Austinites Okkervil River back Erickson on the whole LP, and Okkervil frontman Will Sheff produces. The team-up isn’t a surprise, since Erickson played with Okkervil River at SXSW in 2008 and 2009.
Click here to listen to ‘Goodbye Sweet Dreams’ from the new album!