An electric pulse you can´t escape. That sparkling description of the omnipresent God jumps out from the lyrics of "Providence," one of five energy-gushing songs off the self-titled EP by new San Antonio rock act Abandon. The poetic phrase could also describe the band´s sound, a steady rush of uncommon creativity that has both modern flash and worshipful depth.

Take it from EMI CMG Director of A &R Chris York, who signed Abandon to Forefront Records. Sitting in a restaurant last spring, his attention was drawn from a nice dinner over to the club next door where five young men were pounding out their U2-meets-The Killers tune about a force that rules the human race . . . the hand of providence.