Lift to Experience

Lift to Experience were an alternative rock band from Denton, Texas. Formed in 1996, the band's lineup consisted of Josh T. Pearson (vocals, guitar), Andy Young (drums), and Josh Browning (bass).

Lift to Experience released just one full-length album, 2001's The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads - a double-album concept record combining shoegaze guitar effects with a grandiose lyrical theme incorporating biblical end times eschatology, with the notion of Texas as the Promised Land.

The band dissolved soon after their debut was released, with band members going their separate ways and on to new projects. In between long bouts spent in obscurity, Pearson would intermittently tour as a solo artist, releasing two solo albums: 2011's Last of the Country Gentlemen, and 2018's The Straight Hits!.

Lift to Experience reformed in 2016 in support of the remastered and re-mixed Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads.

Festive Fifty Entries

• 2001 Festive Fifty: These Are The Days #27
• 2001 Festive Fifty: Falling From Cloud Nine #39

Sessions

Lift to Experience recorded three sessions for Peel's programme. The second of these sessions was released as part of the 2017 deluxe vinyl re-issue of The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads.

1. Recorded: 2001-04-12. Broadcast:  Repeated: 

• Just As Was Told / Falling From Cloud 9 / Waiting To Hit / These Are The Days

2. Recorded: 2001-04-15

• Just As Was Told / Falling From Cloud 9 / The Ground So Soft / With The World Behind

3. Recorded: 2001-08-29

• Just As Was Told / Falling From Cloud 9 / With Crippled Wings / The Ground So Soft / Waiting To Hit / These Are The Days

External Links

• Wikipedia
• Discogs