Evening Descends

The music of Oklahoma's Evangelicals befits its name: rich, zealous, and unrestrained. The four-piece form songs that, in the vein of indefinable bands such as the Arcade Fire, dance in and out of styles, often switching up abruptly between songs, as with the opening title track. On 2008's THE EVENING DESCENDS, the outfit's second effort, frontman Josh Jones's wailing falsetto hovers over the elaborate landscapes, with a majesty somewhere between Geddy Lee and Jeremy Enigk. Passion overflows on stories such as the hook-laden "Midnight Vignette" and the summer's day reflection of "Skeleton Man." THE EVENING DESCENDS uncovers a band fired by imagination and unbound by any sense of simple definition.