Lift To Experience - These Are The Days Video

I have to admit I owned a T-Shit before I'd ever heard of the band, I can't remember how and to my great shame they played locally a couple of times and I missed them. It was a few months after that my fellow musical contributor told me to check them out and being the sort that loves a tip, I did. I've not looked back since, and it seems in all that time their status and reputation has grown. Band's such as Explosions In The Sky claim they were a major influence for starters, and there are great expectations around the lead singer and writer Josh T Pearson's solo work. The whole legacy of the band is heightened by an air of mystery and purposeful solitude.

If you've never heard the band, their music evokes all sorts of heavenly imagery and hell-fire preaching. The lyricism and words can be a bit cloying at times in their apocalyptic joy, like the rapture being played out to a wall of feed back and post rock noise. But that's the strength of it as well. I'm a complete non-believer in belief, but the power of the band's one record is so strong there are times it almost makes you want to believe. Not surprising really, much is made of Josh T. Pearson's being the son of an alcoholic Texan preacher, but for me, the noise and songs they make are their true testament. I doubt we'll ever see them as a band again, but here's a video of one of the highlight tracks from their only LP - The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads, These Are The Days.

Posted by Dio Bach at 12:31 PM