Album · Lift To Experience
The Texas‐Jerusalem Crossroads by Lift To Experience
The Texas‐Jerusalem Crossroads is an album by Lift To Experience, released in 2001. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 1 countdown appearance in total. The biggest is “These Are The Days”, on 1 list with a best position of #27.
The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads, released June 26, 2001 on Bella Union, is the only studio album by Denton, Texas trio Lift to Experience, and what a thing to leave behind: a double-album concept piece about the Second Coming of Christ, with Texas cast as the Promised Land. Josh T. Pearson sings and plays guitar, with Josh "The Bear" Browning on bass and Andy "The Boy" Young on drums, and Cocteau Twins' Simon Raymonde and Robin Guthrie handled the mix for their own label.
The sound is a tidal wave: shoegaze feedback piled sky-high, post-rock crescendos and Pearson's preacher's howl riding the storm, with a little humor tucked in between the revelations. Hardly anyone noticed at first, but it found its people online and grew a cult following. The band splintered soon after, Pearson went solo in the 2010s, and Mute gave the album a remastered reissue on February 3, 2017, after a reunion show at Guy Garvey's Meltdown Festival in 2016.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from The Texas‐Jerusalem Crossroads on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | These Are The Days | 1 | #27 | – | 2001 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.