Not only are two former Paste Bands of the Week, Bishop Allen and Evangelicals, about to embark on pretty intense, month-long, multi-continent tours, but they’re actually going to meet up at one point and play two shows together. Just another match made in Heaven by your friends at PasteMagazine.com. If we had any more foresight, we’d have sponsored the tours ourselves.
By
Jeremy Goldmeier
on March 11, 2008 9:55 AM|Permalink
photo by Matthew Isaac
Hometown: Norman, Okla. Members (L-R): Austin Stephens, Kyle Davis, Josh Jones, Todd Jackson Fun Fact: Principal songwriter Josh Jones traveled with The Mooney Suzuki as a guitar tech about a year before his Evangelicals got their break. While on tour, he committed the ultimate roadie taboo and tried to hand out his band’s demos to various A&R guys. Why They’re Worth Watching: These Okies take a sledgehammer to indie pop and spit the fragments in a hundred different directions, hitting everything from overdriven synth rock to campfire sing-a-longs. For Fans Of: The Unicorns, Deerhoof, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
Josh Jones knew he just needed a connection with a record label to help spread the gospel of his Evangelicals project. Well, that, and an actual band.
By
Jeremy Goldmeier
on March 1, 2008 5:45 PM|Permalink
Flower-power band crafts fresh ode to madness After releasing a debut that sounds like an extended trip through Willy Wonka’s hallucinogenic love tunnel, Josh Jones and his Evangelicals return with a second dosage of schizophrenic pop on The Evening Descends. As on 2006’s So Gone, Jones is your bug-eyed tour guide, steering the album through harrowing tales of skeleton men, fatal auto accidents and encroaching insanity. Once again, the production is syrupy thick. Haunted-house backing vocals, spooky synths and oversexed guitars combine to give Evening the delightfully campy horror-movie vibe that its album art suggests. But for all of the similarity between albums, Evangelicals have their reckless sound on a leash for this effort. Whereas So Gone occasionally feels like stream-of-consciousness babble, Evangelicals have now tightened the screw and set their sights on something more coherent and cinematic. Their prowess must be growing and their certainly not showing any signs of slowing.
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