It has been stated loud, clear and often over the years that the Causey Way are not a cult. That's all fine and good, but when you get down to it, that's probably not going to be enough to convince the casual onlooker that this is, indeed, a band and not some kind of weird-ass quasi-religious organization. Come to think of it, I’ve heard them dozens of times and I’m still not quite sure what their deal is. All I do know for certain is that these five people in matching white suits make one hell of a joyous racket.

Imagine, if you will, Devo slugging down PCP-laced martinis while having a ribald conversation with The Talking Heads in an ultra futuristic oxygen bar. That's a miniature insight into The Causey Way's sound. Rather implausibly, The Causey Way manages to sound ultra-suave with a combination that includes buzzsaw guitars, new-wave keyboards and preachy vocal harmonies. They don't even break a sweat doing it. Lyrically, Causey vs. Everything continues down the same pseudo-divine path blazed by the band's previous releases, Testimony and With Loving and Open Arms, filled with plenty of stage-side conversions and ultimate salvation through the cleansing powers of rock n’ roll.

Causey vs. Everything begins, rather startlingly, with a mid-tempo piano-led number sung by bassist/resident hot nurse The Truth. The first time I heard it, I thought I was listening to the wrong album. But soon after its final coda diminishes, the army of bleeping synths and dense rhythmic structure of "Geo Logical Lust" washes over you and it's truly time for the service to begin. You'll be hollering "preach on, brother" as the shifting bass figure and calliope-flavored guitar of "Little Action" hit your ears -- or perhaps "Commandment"'s roiling wall of guitars and spooky gangland background vocals is more to your liking. Elsewhere, their sermon includes portions of nifty sampling and demonic-sounding keyboard lines ("Jesus Loves You"), hyper-kinetic rhythms fused to huge, overdriven surf guitar riffs ("People of the World") and a heavily strummed paean to love and the Beach Boys ("I Know Happy").

After hearing Causey vs. Everything, you might not be convinced that The Causey Way are not a cult. You will, however, be convinced of the band's abundance of talent and knack for writing a catchy-as-hell tune. The search for salvation has never sounded so good.