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 tunefulness and dissonance.

“I'm pretty sure Evangelicals aren't actual evangelicals, but their debut album seems bound to blind faith, a fearless lack of direction or discretion. It figures that they come from Oklahoma, the buckle of the Bible Belt and an unlikely wellspring for freakazoid pop bands like the Flaming Lips. There must be something in the water. But where Wayne Coyne can now afford a proper filtration system, the Evangelicals are lapping up whatever non-purified, mystical elixir flows through the town by the trough-load, and they seem gleefully unconcerned if they piss their pants doing it. “ -- 8.1/10 Pitchfork

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