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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 guita
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
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Manufacturer: Bella Union
Release date: 25 November 2002
Number of discs: 2
EAN: 5033826045820
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