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The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads [Double CD]

~ Lift to Experience
4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Audio CD (25 Nov 2002)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Format: Double CD
  • Label: Bella Union
  • ASIN: B00005AKOC
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 79,121 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

Disc: 1
1. Just As Was Told
2. Down Came The Angels
3. Falling From Cloud 9
4. With Crippled Wings
5. Waiting To Hit
6. Ground So Soft
Disc: 2
1. These Are The Days
2. When We Shall Touch
3. Down With The Prophets
4. To Guard And To Guide You
5. Into The Storm

Product Description

Amazon.co.uk Review
On the cover of their wryly titled debut album The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads, Texan trio Lift To Experience look, initially, like a standard-issue alternative country act: they're wearing big hats and embroidered shirts and slightly faraway stares, looking for all the world like they've just survived a pillaging of their wagon train out on the road to El Paso. However, it takes only a couple of tracks for Lift To Experience to suggest that there is much more going on here. These are country songs only in terms of their spirit of place and unswerving holy righteousness. The music that contains them is a heady, freewheeling guitar trip heavily influenced by such definitively modern, and definitively British, acts as Cocteau Twins and (especially) My Bloody Valentine. Singer Josh Pearson's fluttering treble has doubtless already earned him more comparisons to Jeff Buckley than he knows what to do with, but to criticise him on that score would be similar for damning a young footballer for playing like Pele. Wherever Lift To Experience are going, they'll be worth following. --Andrew Mueller

Uncut, July 2001
"..When the amps are turned off, there’s stunned silence. We’ve just witnessed something truly unique."

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars The Mosaic Verses, 31 May 2001
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The review below this one is from Denton, Texas, where Lift to Experience is from. It would be nice to have a local act this interesting from my neck of the woods, but maybe what makes LTE so good is the fact a bit of distance can be made from them to their American peers, with kind exception to the Lips, Rev and on a good day, maybe another Yank. This record has the tone of "the Apostle" backed not by Steven Curtis Chapman, but something a bit more credible in the indie world. Comparisons to Spiritualized, My Bloody Valentine and the Cocteaus have all been namechecked, with sound argument. However, I'm listening to "The Texas/Jerusalem Crossroads" thinking of other acts that mesh abstract musical arrangements with a strong voice: Mark Hollis and Talk Talk come to mind; it's true, there's even a bit of Bono and U2 here (don't think of image but sound; "The Joshua Tree" is something still relevant); I'm even suspicious of some Pale Saints in the six-string (Graehme Naysmith was a smart and gifted player); whatever other indie rock star that dared to do something different. Well, LTE will--without self-effacement--sing "Amazing Grace" to its audience just as quick as its opener "Just as Was Told," with its start-and-stop time recalling the brilliant "Slow" (remember that?) "These Are the Days" I was happy to know is not a 10,000 Maniacs cover, but a guitar lick I covet to learn: It is brilliant and probably from its prescence in the latest Uncut, increased the band's record sales (it sold me). The Jerusalem side also has the hymn "To Guard and to Guide," something Nick Cave will hear and be relieved that FINALLY some Americans can approach decent subject matter. I'm curious to see what this band can do next. There's great potential for them to come up with a strong follow up, or there's considerable room for them to fail in the redundancies of theology and shoegazing. They could turn their next LP into more Old Testament angst, washed in ethereal guitar, or they could visit something secular (but why); maybe start reading more of Paul and come out with some beautiful laments, influenced by the great Phil Keaggy backed by that strong bear and boy.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars "Prayer Guided Melodies", or How I Learned to Love the Rock, 21 Mar 2001
One listen to disc 2 of Texas Jerusalem Crossroads will leave you stunned, wondering what influences and upbringings brought about this genius band. Lyrically, LTE are all about.. religious revelations (it's the apocalypse and Texas is the promised land) and hidden messages. They are bringing the message to Europe in April and May in anticipation of their debut album's release.

Lift to Experience and centro-matic are wave 2 of the Texas Invasion that brought you And You Will Know Them by the Trail of Dead, Spoon, and At the Drive In last year. While Lift to Experience sound more like Spiritualized than their Texas neighbors, these bands share a common theme of intensity that is unrivaled.

This double album will leave you staring into space wondering where these boys get off telling YOU about the promised land.

If singer/guitarist Josh Pearson's deluded charismatic rantings are to believed, Texas is, literally, the reason.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars lte, 27 Feb 2002
THESE ARE THE DAYS, 25 December, 2001
Reviewer: j s badenoch from Isle of Wight, England
This song has all the resonance of a Clash / U2 anthem but with a strange spirituality remenicient of old time gospell. The mixture of old testement symbolism and new Americana rock / country / punk attitude gives this song that certain something that takes the listener to more esoteric planes than would be expected from from supousedly southern good old boys. references to the walls of Jeheico and Gods swift sword may seem a bit over the top at first listening, but their lyrics and attitude all seem to make sense when you realise that the main man is a 7 foot tall son of a preacher from Texas, and as the song says "were the the best band in the land, and Texas is the reason".
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