Customer Reviews

So Gone

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

After reading about this on Pitchfork Media as a new music pick, I found them on myspace and downloaded two free tracks off of Pitchfork. I enjoyed what I heard, and purchased the album. I cannot really put this album into a category, but I suppose words I would use to describe the majority are jangly, and poppy. Track seven, Into The Woods, reminds me of something taken out of the Radiohead, Kid A realm. The album really serves to give something fresh to indie rock fans like myself, and is greatly recommended.

There's not much to Evangelize. The record speaks for itself. With dreamy movement and a lush amniotic sound, it's artist's like the Evangelicals that give experimentation a good name and prove it doesn't all have to be dissonant antisound. Track six (which is 'My Headache' not 'My Heartache' by the way) is an other worldly sounding ballad... good music to forget reality to.

I saw these guys at a tiny hole in the wall in Boston last summer, I traded my t shirt (I hate my girlfriend) for the cd. The CD is outstanding, there's a lot of talk swimming, and it gives me that feeling. Very unique and original, but not in the artsy, nobody really understands it way. If I had to describe this album in one word it would be bipolar, listen and learn.

Once upon a time in the small suburbs of Oklahoma City many country and western honky-tonks could be seen. And today-the surrounding areas of OKC are only a mutter of yesteryear. It seems the only thing that breaks out into the mainstream today is "Pop-County" acts that flood the dying dream we call radio. The idea of real music is on the minds of a lot of people these days. For people like me, it's hard to turn on the radio and listen to something tolarable. Well for those who don't know, Oklahoma has had the rep for some time now of the one state that births out some very uncharacteristic acts. This has been the question for some time now...How are these good o' boys from Oklahoma making this kind of music? In the mid-eighties and through the present, The Flaming Lips have placed their mark on innovating music and becoming one of the most influential bands of our generation. Next, the Starlight Mints came along. All of which are making music what the layman would call weird. Weird is what most Okies would say anyway.

So now, what to make of this wave of experimentals from Norman, Oklahoma? Well, being a native from the area...it couldn't be any less than a good thing. The Evangelicals open their debut with a shattering chaotic burst. Leaving one to ponder...How bored do you think they were? The album is enough to explain itself, nonetheless. It's one of the most fresh and unexplainable pleasures of this year. They're structured yet messy, they're tight yet unwound. I think it's a promising step for a well-rounded band.

i saw these guys in okc zoo with the flaming lips they are amazing i cant wait to see them at there next show