The Texas Jerusalem Crossroads

Lift To Experience couldn’t be making music anywhere but Denton, Texas, and at no time but the dawn of a new century. But, like all the best rock 'n' roll, their sound is both steeped in their immediate surroundings, their everyday lives, and utterly out of time. There's something elemental in this music; the same primal charge that rattles through The Pixies, The Birthday Party, The Gun Club; the heady incantations of Jeff Buckley's "Grace"; the dreaming, visionary soundscapes of My Bloody Valentine; the haunted, starlit swirl of Slint. Lift To Experience doesn't really sound anything like these bands, but they do share their spirit. This is beautiful, evangelical, unexpected, intoxicating music, sure, music to surrender to -- but it's also a call to arms. Singer Josh Pearson rages as the night gathers around him, in his right hand, The Book Of Revelations, on fire.