When we gave our gushing preview of Evangelicals great new record and mentioned a childhood diet that surely included Scooby Doo reruns, “Midnight Vignette” was sort of what we had in mind, which sounds just like a cheeky take on the soundtrack to a chase scene for a b-movie horror flick. (As the band’s said themselves, there’s a dash of Rocky Horror to this show.) Rather awesomely, Josh Jones’s sprawling psych-pop crew take those tones and splash them all over the video for “Vignette,” which is essentially a drive-in slasher flick in four-minute form. You just need twenty seconds to get the feel for the full clip, but the song is what we’re really tripping over.
Guillemots, Evangelicals, it’s a good day for over-the-top pop.
The excellent The Evening Descends is out now via the equally excellent Dead Oceans.
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Cool.
Good song.
Saw these guys in Columbia, Mo about week ago. They were fantastic!
I agree with nilsson1941. I was also at the show in Columbia last Friday. Evangelicals were really great, especially “Skeleton Man” and “Bellawood”.
This is a featured vid on youtube right now. The comments are predictably hilarious.
“The chick from Arch Enemy is much better than this singer.” says one guy.
So far, The Evening Descends is up for my record of the year.