Album Review: Evangelic Girl Is A Gun by yeule

Maintaining an other-worldly cyber-darling nuance that, somehow, feels entirely innate, implies Evangelic Girl is a Gun is a bit of a risk - it accentuates humanity. On Nat Ćmiel's fourth album, styles perfected and popularised by subversive 90s acts - Massive Attack and Nine Inch Nails will spring to mind - provide the guidance needed to explore new soundscapes, encouraging the singer-songwriter to surpass all previous achievements. As for risk, Ćmiel is no stranger to defying boundaries - 2022's Glitch Princess concluded with a four hour and 44 minute long ambient piece.

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expectations :( Yeule is like, really good, you know? In lieu of a classic classic, they have spent the past few years creating three distinctly excellent albums: three albums that are distinct enough to have all been labeled "their best work" by different (groups of) fans, and excellent enough for those fans to understand why others might not agree. I'm a softscarserer for life, because, well, dreamyfloaty, but I can totally see how one might prefer Glitch Princess' existential ambitiousness or the immersive minimalism of Serotonin II. The downside of this constantly-evolving quality output? Expectations :( Evangelic Girl is a Gun is the title of the new Yeule album, duh, and it does set itself apart from the pack… by being the artist's least interesting record.

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Nat Ćmiel, also known as Yeule, has consistently flirted with and aspired to pop glory. Even with 2022’s Glitch Princess, which featured them circling the atmosphere like a suicidal alien sizing up our blue orb, they displayed an uncommon pop sensibility. Sure, the set oozed disembodiment and downtempo paranoia, but clearly Cmiel wasn’t as “out there” as they seemed.

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On opener 'Tequila Coma', yeule - possessed by the pop-rock Celtic fusion vocality of The Corrs' Y2K hit 'Breathless' - sings: "Tequila coma / Naked on the marble floor / And all my lovers / Crucified on the floor. " Sonically, it's a far cry from the glitchy dream-pop of 2023 predecessor 'softscars', as cuts 'Eko' and 'Dudu' are similarly animated, conjuring the kind of abstract pop visions the likes of Caroline Polachek might craft. Narratively too, 'Evangelic Girl Is A Gun' is less concerned with haunting digital dystopia, instead exploring embodied self-destruction, literary romanticism and the ego death required of artistry itself.

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