A reminder that you can listen to the last twenty songs that appeared on Modcult in a nicer format here.

Still going through the stacks to tally some sort of “best of” list for 2010.

Order the LP directly from the label.

Available from the label.

Available directly from the label.

Available directly from the label.

From Roky’s upcoming album, True Love Cast Out All Evil, due out in April. Here’s a video of him talking with Will Sheff of Okkervil River, who produced the record.

Of the experience making the record, Sheff says:

When we started out, I was given sixty unreleased songs to choose from. There were songs written during business setbacks including the Elevators’ painful breakup, songs written by Roky while he was incarcerated at Rusk, and a great deal of songs that reminded me of the sense of optimism and romanticism that I think sustained Roky through his worst years and ultimately reunited him, a few years ago, with his son Jegar and his first wife Dana. Because we started with so many songs to choose from, the quality of the material we ended up with was exhilarating. 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 plagued by the kind of personal tragedies that would destroy someone less resilient. This record has been the most challenging and rewarding, thing I’ve ever worked on, and we in Okkervil River were deeply honored to show up decades later and help Roky carry these wonderful songs over the finish line.

Available on LP from Dull Knife Records.