Evangelicals: So Gone  [6 July 2006]  By Justin Cober-Lake  My
first encounter with Evangelicals frontman Josh Jones came at
2005’s South By Southwest festival. Guitar Wolf pulled a random
person out of the crowd to play on stage, and it turned out to
be Jones, an actual guitarist, who proceeded to roll around on
the floor and generally turn himself into a spectacle even amid
the spectacle that is a Guitar Wolf show. I talked to him after
the set, but had been deafened enough to be unsure of both his
and his band’s name. Enough of the crowd at SXSW are in bands of
one sort or another that I assumed this was the only thing I’d
hear of them.  A little over a year later, the promo for So Gone
shows up. I’m happy just to have gotten both names right, and
I’m curious to hear what these guys actually sound like. Maybe
Jones is the type to record 60 minutes of himself in pure chaos,
but maybe he’s an indie boy more likely to listen to hometown
neighbors the Flaming Lips or Starlight Mints. It turns out the
chaos fro