Lift to Experience
Lift to Experience was a band from Denton, Texas, United States that formed… Read Full Bio ↴Lift to Experience was a band from Denton, Texas, United States that formed in 1996 with vocalist and guitarist Josh T. Pearson, drummer Andy Young and bassist Josh Browning.
When the band performed at the SXSW festival in 2000, they impressed Simon Raymonde and Robin Guthrie so much that the duo decided to sign the band to their record label, Bella Union, that same day.
Lift to Experience's characteristic sound comes from a solo guitar with heavy effects pedals and a modified Leslie speaker. The band's major work, released in 2001, is The Texas Jerusalem Crossroads. The album's lyrics are replete with Biblical Christian imagery relating to the Second Coming of Christ and a professed love of Texas and the United States. The music features a multilayered Wall of Sound and feedback-driven aesthetic. The album received little attention upon release, mainly because it was only available in Europe due to of a lack of money for a US release. The original 2001 album mix is notoriously unmastered, due to Bella Union only being able to afford mixing or mastering without Josh's oversight. However, this mixing choice led to the album achieving cult status on online music forums.
The band would split shortly after the album's release. After the passing of David Bowie, Josh decided to reform the band and asked Bella Union for the rights for "The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads" so they could remaster it themselves. Bella Union complied with this request and they signed to British record label Mute Records. With the help of them and engineer Matt Pence, they remastered the album "full circle, as god intended" in 2017 on digital and physical formats. Mute would also reissue a few alternate recordings of Falling from Cloud 9 in an EP on digital and physical formats. Their 1997 EP would be reissued exclusively on vinyl via The Texas- Jerusalem Crossroads deluxe vinyl boxset.
As of 2018, they have done a number of reunion tours, but have yet to record a follow up. Frontman Josh T. Pearson is also currently pursuing a solo career, while Andy Young formed a project with Elbow frontman Guy Garvey, Western Arms. Young now has a band called The Flowers of God who released a four song EP in September 2010, and as of late 2011, Josh Browning also now plays bass in Fort Worth, Texas shoegaze-styled band Year of the Bear.
http://bellaunion.com/artists/lift-to-experience
https://www.facebook.com/lifttoexperience
When the band performed at the SXSW festival in 2000, they impressed Simon Raymonde and Robin Guthrie so much that the duo decided to sign the band to their record label, Bella Union, that same day.
Lift to Experience's characteristic sound comes from a solo guitar with heavy effects pedals and a modified Leslie speaker. The band's major work, released in 2001, is The Texas Jerusalem Crossroads. The album's lyrics are replete with Biblical Christian imagery relating to the Second Coming of Christ and a professed love of Texas and the United States. The music features a multilayered Wall of Sound and feedback-driven aesthetic. The album received little attention upon release, mainly because it was only available in Europe due to of a lack of money for a US release. The original 2001 album mix is notoriously unmastered, due to Bella Union only being able to afford mixing or mastering without Josh's oversight. However, this mixing choice led to the album achieving cult status on online music forums.
The band would split shortly after the album's release. After the passing of David Bowie, Josh decided to reform the band and asked Bella Union for the rights for "The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads" so they could remaster it themselves. Bella Union complied with this request and they signed to British record label Mute Records. With the help of them and engineer Matt Pence, they remastered the album "full circle, as god intended" in 2017 on digital and physical formats. Mute would also reissue a few alternate recordings of Falling from Cloud 9 in an EP on digital and physical formats. Their 1997 EP would be reissued exclusively on vinyl via The Texas- Jerusalem Crossroads deluxe vinyl boxset.
As of 2018, they have done a number of reunion tours, but have yet to record a follow up. Frontman Josh T. Pearson is also currently pursuing a solo career, while Andy Young formed a project with Elbow frontman Guy Garvey, Western Arms. Young now has a band called The Flowers of God who released a four song EP in September 2010, and as of late 2011, Josh Browning also now plays bass in Fort Worth, Texas shoegaze-styled band Year of the Bear.
http://bellaunion.com/artists/lift-to-experience
https://www.facebook.com/lifttoexperience
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Lift to Experience Lyrics
Down Came the Angels What's in the sky shining silver shimering sleek A star, a…
Down with the Prophets Stubborn horses standing on the lead rope, no other forces…
Falling from Cloud 9 Rising to the top knowing I must fall. Refeathered wings, s…
Into the Storm Into the storm Tell your mother you won't be home for…
Just as Was Told This is the story of three Texas boys busy mindin'…
The Ground So Soft Lord rescue me, place your hand underneath my wings and lif…
These Are the Days These are the days, marching t'ward us with vengeance in…
To Guard and to Guide You Angels we have heard on high, sweetly singing o'er the…
Waiting to Hit Waiting to In the morning glow with light so low the day…
When We Shall Touch Falling, just angels falling (When) we shall touch, the wor…
With Crippled Wings Yeah the storms will surely come, (as) sure as the…