Lift To Experience "Falling From Cloud 9"

Live Trabendo Paris 2001. Lift to Experience was a rock band from Denton, Texas. The outfit was formed in 1996, with Josh T. Pearson (vocals & guitar), Andy "The Boy" Young (drums) and Josh "The Bear" Browning (bass).
The band's major work is The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads (2001), a sprawling song cycle replete with Biblical and Christian imagery, particularly of the Second Coming. Pearson's lyrics combine devout Christianity with a professed love of Texas and the United States of America. Pearson goes so far as to refer to the "USA" as the heart of Jerusalem by highlighting the letters in the word - JerUSAlem.
The songs themselves are melodic and layered. However, it is the band's arrangements and startling delivery that give the album its uniqueness and lasting quality. At times the songs literally descend into feedback, as if the band are musically flailing in the tempest of sound they have created. This is reminiscent of The Velvet Underground, My Bloody Valentine and Husker Du.