Evangelicals
So Gone by Evangelicals
| Evangelicals hail from Oklahoma, birthplace of the Flaming Lips; maybe it’s one of the most fun places in the world to make music, because there is a wide-eyed glee in the music of both bands. And a similar disregard for convention. On So Gone, anything goes, often simultaneously, but without sounding crude or messy; every gatecrashing squall, whirr, madman holler and guitar stutter somehow makes itself right at home alongside grimy electronic signals, watery vibraphone, gorgeous harmonies, cheeky banjo and the naive, high vocal of singer-guitarist Josh Jones. Standouts include the careening, layered Another Day (and Yoor Still Knocked Out), the deliriously joyous Here Comes Trouble, and the breezy, carefree Diving. Maybe the album title refers to how you’ll feel after hearing So Gone. I am. – THE AGE (four stars)
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The Evening Descends by Evangelicals
| The Evening Descends… and worlds collide. First you hear the prodigious musical skill: the deft guitar work, the clever pop sensibility, the wild arrangements. But then on other end of the spectrum there is the innocent and youthful charm of a quartet of lost boys who seem to have no business making music with such maturity and sophistication. Taken together, you have Evangelicals, a wholly demented ensemble from Norman, Oklahoma. Dabbling in glam, slipping in a little funk and soul, drinking the psychedelic Kool-aid, blasting the synths, cranking up the guitars, and wrapping it all up with a dose of pop smarts; Evangelicals deliver tales of religion and revivalism, plus insanity, drugs, black-outs, zombies, good and evil, car crashes, love, and a mental institution called Bellawood.
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