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[r.i.p.]

Out next week. Seems right up the SOMB alley, so I figured I'd start a thread on it. The Flaming Lips comparisons are inevitable- they're from Norman, OK, and sing about skeletons, brain alteration, car crashes, and suicide.

Quick, cheap comparison: Think a cross of Hit To Death In The Future Head with, say, the hazy reverb Once We Were Trees by Beachwood Sparks (or even At Dawn by MMJ.)

Listen to the entire thing at myspace.com/evangelicals

or just take it here.


On a side note, they're on the rising Dead Oceans label, who released Dirty Projectors and Phosphorescent last year, and will release The Explorers Club debut later in '08. The latter, I'm dying for.

[arkin]

there are some pretty good songs on this album, decent overall, still, I lose interest after a few songs through.

[Simakos]

thanks, brent! i love these guys...

that new EVANGELICALS song posted over at pitchfork, over and over and over...

http://downloads.pit.....leton Man.mp3

[BRANDON BOYD FROM INCUBUS]

listened to this twice while shelving books at work tonight, thanks for the link. i wish my college town could produce aband like these guys. we are still running off old man or astro-man? cred.

[solace]

speaking of: 1/24/08 Norman, OK - Meacham Auditorium (Univ. of Oklahoma) FREE 02/15/08 Columbia, MO - Mojo's w/ Headlights 02/16/08 Lexington, KY - The Icehouse w/ Headlights 02/17/08 Nashville, TN - The End w/ Headlights 02/18/08 Athens, GA - The Caledonia Lounge w/ Headlights 02/19/08 Mt. Pleasant, SC - Village Tavern w/ Headlights 02/20/08 Norfolk, VA - The Boot w/ Headlights 02/21/08 Arlington, VA - Iota w/ Headlights 02/24/08 New York, NY - Mercury Lounge w/ Headlights 02/25/08 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's w/ Headlights 02/26/08 Hamden, CT - The Space w/ Headlights 02/27/08 Cambridge, MA - Middle East w/ Headlights 02/28/08 Princeton, NJ - Terrace Club w/ Headlights 02/29/08 Brooklyn, NY - Union Hall w/ Headlights 03/01/08 Buffalo, NY - Mohawk Place w/ Headlights 03/02/08 Toronto, ON - El Mocambo w/ Headlights 03/03/08 Cleveland, OH - Beachland w/ Headlights 03/04/08 Bloomington, IN - Waldron Arts Center w/ Headlights 03/06/08 Urbana, IL - Canopy Club w/ Headlights 03/07/08 Chicao, IL - Schuba's w/ Headlights 03/08/08 St. Louis, MO - Bilken Club w/ Headlights 03/09/08 Springfield, MO - Randy Beacon Gallery w/ Headlights 03/10/08 Norman, OK - Opolis w/ Headlights 03/11/08 Dallas, TX - The Cavern w/ Headlights 03/12/08 Austin, TX - SXSW 03/13/08 Austin, TX - SXSW 03/14/08 Austin, TX - SXSW 03/15/08 Austin, TX - SXSW 03/17/08 Tucson, AZ - Plush w/ Headlights 03/19/08 Los Angeles, CA - Silver Lake Lounge w/ Headlights 03/20/08 Visalia, CA - Howie & Sons w/ Headlights 03/21/08 San Francisco, CA - Hemlock Tavern w/ Headlights 03/23/08 Seattle, WA - Nectar Lounge w/ Headlights 03/24/08 Missoula, MT - Badlander w/ Headlights 03/26/08 Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court w/ Headlights 03/27/08 Denver, CO - Hi Dive w/ Headlights 03/28/08 Omaha, NE - Waiting Room w/ Headlights 03/29/08 Minneapolis, MN - Nomad w/ Headlights 03/30/08 Milwaukee, WI - Cactus Club w/ Headlights 04/01/08 Dekalb, IL - House Cafe w/ Headlights 04/02/08 Madison, WI - Club 770 w/ Headlights 04/03/08 Iowa City, IA - The Mill w/ Headlights 04/04/08 Lake Forest, IL - The Chapel w/ Headlights 04/05/08 Beloit, WI - Beloit College w/ Headlights

[Undercooked Sausage]

listened to this twice while shelving books at work tonight, thanks for the link.
i wish my college town could produce aband like these guys. we are still running off old man or astro-man? cred.

asobi seksu played here once

thats all i've got

[r.i.p.]

listened to this twice while shelving books at work tonight, thanks for the link.
i wish my college town could produce aband like these guys. we are still running off old man or astro-man? cred.

Auburn?

15 years ago, when I was in High School, a friend of mine, two years my senior, invited me and a buddy down to visit him at Auburn. He was a freshman, pledging. He took us to a frat house for a party, where Man or Astroman? played with a band called Hooker.

Hooker wore tight bike pants, mullets, and football jerseys. The singer stepped up to the mic and yelled, "This is a song called... TUSH!!" They played hair metal cover of ZZ Top. So, yeah, Hooker.

[Miiilo]

Pretty good. I liked their first album but this one is better. The songs still blur into each other (and themselves) but they have a lot of promise . . . they sort of remind me of a young version of the Flaming Lips.

[arkin]

the more I listen the more I like this, but that first track is kind of annoying.

[arkin]

yeah, shit, after listening about 5 times this week, I love this. still can't stand the first song, but whatever. Classic case of a 'grower'.

[Simakos]

loving this record. i want to see them live.

[Bobzilla]

loving this record. i want to see them live.

SCHUBAS
Friday 3/7/2008 10:00 PM 18+ $10.00
Headlights (Record Release)
Evangelicals
Audrye Sessions

[DrJimmy]

hmm, there's something good about this. more later.

[BRANDON BOYD FROM INCUBUS]

bumping this thread because i listened to this album about four times today, and it is just getting better everytime.

I can definitely hear the At Dawn comparisons on Skeleton Man and Paperback Suicide, which are probably my favorites right now.


Bellawood deserves it's own thread, what a strange song. It's like if Radiohead wrote Paranoid Android in a fever dream in a morgue instead of a grocery store or wherever.


Love this guy's voice.

[BRANDON BOYD FROM INCUBUS]

The Explorers Club debut

Yeah, I really want to hear this too. I keep submitting their name to my University's UPC to get them, because it would be so easy to since they are from the same region and haven't had enough success to turn their nose up at a public university headlining show hopefully.

We got the actual beach boys a few years ago and it was a big hit, why not get these guys for a lot cheaper now? My school doesn't think this way, though..

[BRANDON BOYD FROM INCUBUS]

This and the new Why? are my favorite records of the year. Everyone needs to hop on this before they blow up.

[DrJimmy]

i pretty much lost interest.

[Meldrick Lewis]

Party Crashin' is a good tune

[Chronodiggity]

I pretty much wish someone would reupload this.

[DrJimmy]

Party Crashin' is a good tune

i agree. this is the one i would put on.