The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads

Artist: Lift to Experience
Label: Bella Union
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2

UPC: 723724243224
EAN: 0723724243224
ASIN: B00005Y7G3

Release Date: 2001-07-31

The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads

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Tracks:

Just as Was Told
Down Came the Angels
Falling from Cloud 9
With Crippled Wings
Waiting to Hit
Ground So Soft

Tracks:

These Are the Days
When We Shall Touch
Down with the Prophets
To Guard and to Guide You
Into the Storm

Customer Reviews:

What one would consider the real deal........2006-04-04

I really don't write reviews often. This is only my second. But I've been waiting to chime in and say this is one of my favorite bands/album. And I know you've heard that line many times reading customer reviews. please stick with me for a second.

I love music. Whether its shoe-gaze like lush or slowdive. Whether its post-rock like slint or rodan. Whether its math rock such as polvo or june of 44. Whether its emo like american football or saetia. Whether its bands like echo & the bunnymen or the minutemen, or mission of burma. Whether its the pixies, the cure, or the smiths. or lo-fi rock like Pavement or GBV. Whether its the stone roses, or steve reich, or animal collective. or bands like the cocteau twins or bauhaus. Whether its IDM, or post-hardcore, or free-jazz, or alt-country. I love finding new and interesting music, and this is a jem in terms of music with a deepness and open-ness that is hard to find. THIS HAS GOT THE RAW emotional strength of bands like red house painters, dead can dance, and over the rhine. I know I sound like a music geek/loser with all the name dropping. But what can I say, I really like music and I really like this album.

so, highly recommended for anyone with an open ear, and genuine love for music.

Surprising, powerful, and moving.......2005-09-18

At first glance, it would be easy to underestimate this 2-disc set. It doesn't look like it would be much more than drinkin', losin' my woman, and more drinkin' rockabilly from the oddly washed out picture on the front. But mom taught me not to judge books (or CDs) by their cover, and with The Texas/Jerusalem Crossroads, mom was right.

What impresses me the most is the fearlessness of the performance. These are men who are addressing the issues of their own belief--about themselves, apocalypse, God, and Texas with the sort of openness reserved for private therapy sessions. It is a complete baring of the spirit, a willingness to make themselves vulnerable to an extreme degree that gives these songs their power. Without this total honesty and frankness, each song would come off as a parody of itself rather than the expression of faith, longing, and doubt that it is.

Beyond that, these gentlemen are gifted musicians, and Josh Pearson is talented both as a lyricist and as a performer.

This is a notable work that should be experienced by everyone, and experiencing it means giving it full attention. No listening in the car, no playing it while talking to friends or making dinner. It needs your full concentration for you to absorb the message and the raw emotional power behind the message.

I love this CD completely, and recommend it without hesitation to anyone who craves a sonic masterpiece, lyrics that have actual impact, and the raw, unabashed honesty so rare in most artists today.

A Religious Experience........2004-02-26

Put aside your own anti organised religion beliefs for one moment. Just as Steve Earle was lambasted by the right-wing for his song 'John Walker's Blues', Lift To Experience have been attacked by certain parts of the mainly liberal and supposedly open-minded rock fraternity for their religiously conceptual "Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads". Theistic or not, the content of this album has the ability to appeal to all. The emotions that the band portray via the dense and longing soundscapes and lyrics that encompass love, war, fear and death can be valued by all and narrate a vivid and often terrifying story. If anything this album will make you forget the modern bigoted views of many right-wing christians and maybe appreciate the worthy and intense feeling that Christianity was based upon. What do I know anyway? This album uncovers feelings in me that no other album can bring forth. Genius. If they don't do another album then I'll cry.

a fully made album, not a fragmentary one..........2003-04-22

this is a great album, the music is fabolous. i think the whole album is enclosed in a concept, such as pink floyds albums, enrique bunbury, and a lot others; who not only make the songs one by one and have no relation among them. theres a connection or continuity through the whole album, including feelings, lyrics, music and of course the titles: if you read along from the first song to the last one you can make up a sentence with a complete meaning; well, there are two phrases, one for each CD. this group doesnt only work with the musicality of the instruments, but also with the voice, they manage scales and harmonys and all that with the voice like it was yet another instument, not just repeating a static tone of voice. this album is great in complexity when you listen carefully through it, but its also digestable, causing no stomach (or ear) problems in listening it for the first time.
i just hope the next album is also made with such enthusiasm as this one and not just another album to pass the time or listen as background music during a party or seance.

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