It's early afternoon and David Metcalf tells me there's a good to great chance I've got a venereal disease in my future.
Metcalf is a singer and guitarist for Bodies of Water, a Los Angeles act playing Solar Culture on Saturday night, and his prognosis stems from a personality test he created on the band's Web site.
On the quiz, you select pictures that appeal to you, and the end result reveals a hazy horoscope of varying accuracy.
"In your case, it's largely accurate," said Metcalf from a New Hampshire gas station. "You're not condemned to follow that path, it's just likely."
Bodies of Water is a four-piece often compared to acts like Polyphonic Spree and Arcade Fire for its group vocals over its propulsive music. Yet Bodies of Water is less hippie than Polyphonic, less weighty than Win Butler's posse and less densely populated than either band.
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Bodies of Water is, however, probably more Christian than the pair (although Arcade Fire's last album was called "Neon Bible").
The band's brand of Christianity is closer in spirit to Sufjan Stevens and Danielson, both of whom invoke the Lord in song. These God-fearing indie acts are not a part of the Bible Belt, golly-gee-shucks, Ned Flanders-like school of wholesome Christianity — they're just down with the higher power and aren't afraid to make reference.
"There's definitely a spiritual dimension in all the songs," Metcalf said.
Bodies of Water self-released its debut album, "Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink," in 2007, but the label Secretly Canadian gave the LP its official rerelease in January.
So while you get caught up with "Ears Will Pop," don't get too comfortable with it — Bodies of Water has another album coming out in July.
"I think everybody gets the impression we're just cranking them out," he said.
Metcalf said the July release was recorded in his bedroom, so pay no mind to the occasional sound of dogs running across the floor during a piano solo or noise from the high school across the street.
"There was a half-hour window where there's a bunch of ice cream trucks and kids and stuff like that, so we really couldn't record right then," he said.
• What: Bodies of Water in concert, with What Laura Says Thinks And Feels and B4Skin.
• When: 9 p.m. Saturday.
• Where: Solar Culture, 31 E. Toole Ave.
• Cost: $6.
• More info: myspace.com/ bodiesofwater and go.azstarnet.com/solarculture
