The Evangelicals

Genre: Rock Hometown: Norman OK
www.myspace.com/theevangelicals

Friday, March 17   11:00 p.m.
Maggie Mae's   (323 E 6th St)

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Evangelical: Characterized by ardent or crusading enthusiasm; zealous.

Sometimes Webster’s says it best. There’s joyousness, righteousness, an undeniable enthusiasm that just oozes from "So Gone", the debut album from Norman, Oklahoma’s Evangelicals. Formed just over a year ago, this youthful trio bursts with a vitality too rare in modern music. With an almost total disregard for tradition, Evangelicals have an uninhibited approach to making music that sounds spawned not from some scene or gaggle of influences, but a place that’s otherworldly and totally of the moment. Recorded using various four track machines and broken-down computers, "So Gone" sometimes sounds like a happy accident of sounds and songs, a collision of melody and atonality, a battle between melody and dissonance. Fans of Unicorns, Deerhoof, Xiu Xiu, Animal Collective should take note.