Backseat Sandbar

I Guess I’m Floating and Hot Brown Mess are bringing to town a fantastic show with the Evangelicals and the Holiday Shores.  The Evangelicals are a highly touted band from Norman, Oklahoma (home of The Flaming Lips) and they have been making major waves since their debut album, So Gone in 2006.  I had a chance to talk with front-man Josh Jones today and, even after the greater success of their 2008 sophomore album, The Evening Descends, he seemed as grounded as can be.   They are in that gray area of touring – over a year since their last release and a few months away from their next release – but Josh told me that they plan on playing from all of their catalog, but testing out some of their new stuff live.  It’s a short three and a half week tour, but they plan on focusing squarely on the new album after the few dates they have scheduled.  I asked him about the band’s history with Dead Oceans out of Bloomington, Indiana and described the growth of their relationship as “organic.”  Unlike a lot of bands that send their stuff around everywhere hoping to get signed, he was just talking to one of their people and mutually agreed to “put an album out together sometime.”  This is the same label that boast bands such as Akron/Family, Nurses, Bishop Allen and the amazing Dirty Projectors.  The ease in which The Evangelicals succeed at everything should make us all jealous and I don’t see an end in sight.  See you at the show!

Show details:

Glassworks
815 W. Market St. / Louisville
7:30 doors / $7

21+ (the show was previously advertised as all ages, but sadly, it is not.  Take note young ones.)

Evangelicals – Skeleton Man

Holiday Shores- Phones Don’t Feud

I Guess I’m Floating and Hot Brown Mess are bringing to town a fantastic show with the Evangelicals and the Holiday Shores.  Not only that, but they have hooked us up with a pair of tickets to give to one of our readers. Comment below with your favorite band originating from the mid-west (excluding Evangelicals and the Flaming Lips).  We’ll announce a winner  on Wednesday.  Good luck.  More details below…

Glassworks
815 W. Market St. / Louisville
7:30 doors / $7
All ages

EVANGELICALS :::

“The Evening Descends is bursting with balcony-pitched histrionics, molten Brian May leads, and standing-ovation-worthy crashes. But what really makes this album special is the ways in which the Evangelicals pull off big-stage spectacle on what still sounds like a public-access cable-show budget. More than their shared zip code and mutual affinity for lysergic pop songs, it’s this thrifty ideology that most closely relates Evangelicals to the Flaming Lips– specifically the anarchic mid-80s incarnation that proved a few well-utilized Christmas lights and fog machines can make a bar band look like Pink Floyd.” – Pitchfork (Best New Music, 8.3)

“Many folks are quick to point out that Evangelicals hail from Norman, Oklahoma, the same hood as another epic psych-rock outfit, The Flaming Lips. However, after all the video game sound effects, dubbed conversations and other b-side space-flick accoutrements, even Wayne Coyne would likely be found with mouth agape. Since its release, Evening Descends has gotten nothing but extreme reviews, both positive and negative. At a time when musicians are experimenting with noise in both its volume and density, Evangelicals have found a way to push the envelope yet still attract listeners who normally lean towards the brighter side of psychedelic music. With guitars as fuzzy as Friday night beer goggles; tons of arpeggios, cadences, and found sounds; and vocals reminiscent of a tamer Alec Ounsworth (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah), Evangelicals definitely deserve a “Most Original” Award.” – KEXP Blog

Evangelicals – Skeleton Man

HOLIDAY SHORES :::

“Columbus’d The Whim is the first first full-length album from Pemberton’s Holiday Shores, who, like the street that bears their name, are quintessentially summer: chimey guitars, reverb-soaked vocals, warbling Rhodes, echoes of years past.
The album, packed with 10 could-be singles, reads like a book of Pemberton’s well-written memories. Each word chosen meaningfully with a linguist’s touch; each sentence constructed carefully with an artist’s ear. Columbus’d The Whim is a literary work in addition to a sonic one.” – Two Syllables

Holiday Shores- Phones Don’t Feud