2023’s softscars presented a darker, more cathartic side to yeule’s music, embracing shoegaze, grunge, and other ’90s alternative influences rather than the more atmospheric electropop of their earlier works. Their fourth album, Evangelic Girl Is a Gun, is a continuation of this sound, but also sort of a rebirth or renewed focus. Opener “Tequila Coma” has a trip-hop rhythm which feels gritty rather than easygoing, and it’s accompanied by glitchy, longing vocals and a scratchy guitar solo. Other songs match lyrics of desire and infatuation with the strongest hooks yeule has ever written. “Eko” is upbeat alt-pop with a soaring chorus about being unable to stop thinking about someone. “Dudu” contains an extremely catchy, deceptively cheerful-sounding onomatopoeic refrain…