Video: Vimeo - YouTube Photos: Flickr Audio: zip download: right-click, save as This session was recorded in Glasgow before Josh's performance at Oran Mor on 22nd November last year. The first attempt to record a session with him was at Stereo, but recording in a venue really didn't work out, so this time we decided to take up the kind offer of Phil from PAWS to record it in his bedroom instead. Again [...]
This is our third year of doing end of the year round-ups at The Ruckus. It's been a challenge to dig through and re-listen to everything that's come out over an entire year of music, and we invariably leave out really great albums, so this time around we've asked a few of our favorite people to contribute their picks as well. This year, our favorite album comes from Frank Turner ( England Keep My Bones ) and because he's an awesome person, Frank gave us his pick to start our guest list. [...]
[The New Classics is a reoccurring segment in which we examine our favorite indie releases that are bound to replace our parents' "classic rock" stash hidden in the attic or the basement. These aren't reviews, these are unedited testimonies and opinions about why we love what we love. Can we get a witness?] Words by Will Album: The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads Artist: Lift To Experience Released: June 26, 2001 Label: [...]
Reviewing this album is going to be a little tricky (yes, I know, I always say that). Because Matt from Stay Loose, who are doing the UK PR for the album, knew I would like this album he got it to me really quickly, so I first heard it before any of the swathes upon swathes of messianically-toned reviews were published. This is a bloody good thing, because after all the fawning press, I think I might have found it hard not to be deliberately contrarian, had I not already known it was a stunning album. It is [...]
[mp3] Josh T. Pearson: "Woman I've Raised Hell" When you see videos of Josh T. Pearson playing, you're forced to wonder "why haven't we heard about him sooner?" Well, some very astute people DID know him from his previous band, the mythical, if little known cult act Lift to Experience, which was met with widespread critical praise. But for us noobs, Pearson's new album Last of the Country Gentlemen (out now, Mute) was our first introduction. It has not disappointed. We won't gloss over the fact that some [...]
Try as you might, you'll never convince Josh T. Pearson that he's a legend. Bring up the ever-expanding myth of Lift To Experience. Point out his rabid following across Europe. Even invoke his staggeringly beautiful solo debut, Last Of The Country Gentlemen , and the most you'll get is a little nervous laughter and a gentle reminder that it is, and always has been, about "the art." You can talk yourself blue in the face; he's not having it. Of course, Josh T. Pearson is about [...]
I think I have figured out why Fence Records hate the internet. Or at least, I feel like I am starting to get some insight into what is an intensely troubled relationship. The two of them just don't get along at all, and the mutual antipathy has boiled over into outright hostility this afternoon, with the rush to buy Homegame tickets from the Fence website actually breaking the whole internet. So while I wait for normal service to be resumed, and with it the opportunity to buy tickets for Homegame this year, I thought I might record a [...]
Our other writer Brian and I were discussing the essential purpose of art and whether or not it diminishes in value once it's up for sale. Brian's ideal artisitic mode involves a bunch of musicians creating, recording, and editing a tune and then immediately lighting it on fire as to avoid any sort of lessining of value due to audience interaction. In other words, art is for the creator moreso than the audience. I can dig this vibe, although we'd be left with a whole lot less music to enjoy if this was the primary method. [...]
Josh T. Pearson is about the last artist I'd expect to find signed to Mute Records, and yet here we are. A native of Denton, Tx, and formerly of Lift To Experience, Pearson has been knocking around Paris for the last few years, performing and writing the songs that came to comprise The Last of the Country Gentlemen . That record, recorded in Berlin, isn't due to hit until sometime in March of 2011, and promises a heapin' helpin' of Pearson's gloomy gut-level intensity. In the meantime, check out this cathartic live [...]
Juste un titre de Lift To Experience pour rappeler que Josh T Pearson est à la flèche d'or Jeudi prochain. Revoir Dieu 10 ans après... Lift To Experience - These Are The Days [extrait du single These Are The Days ]
"This is the story of three Texas boys busy mindin' their own business when the Angel of the Lord appeared unto them saying: 'When the Winston Churchill's start firin' their Winston rifles in the sky from the Lone Star State, drinkin' their Lone Star beer and smoking their Winston cigarettes, You know the time is drawin' nigh when the sun shall be lifted on high.' We told them that didn't sound very Sunday-go-ta-meetin'. 'What do you expect?' they said 'When God calls [...]
Before you break out into a cold sweat about having to sit through another list of the best albums of the decade, don't worry, this is not one of those. Although most of these songs would be there or thereabouts if I were actually compiling a favourite songs of the decade list, that's not why they're here. Basically, rather than try and rank anything against anything else, all this is is a meander through the last ten years and me chattering about how my relationship with music has changed and what sort of stuff I was into at [...]
Hmmm. I am not a big fan of Christmas, really. Which is not to say that I don't enjoy it, because I do, more that there are a million things about the season which fucking irritate the living shit out of me. A simple example would be the appearance of Christmas decorations in shops in October; that annoys everyone, I know, I am not claiming to be unique here. High Street Christmas is an ungodly shitfest of an invention, and the less I have to do with it the happier I am, generally. Then, on the other hand, [...]
Jesus fucking Christ. I think I may actually have a badger living in my mouth. Or a muskrat. Or one of those little yappy dog bastard things which always make me want to feed them to our bloody cat. Gin is raping my brain. Fucking bastard. To make matters worse, that insufferable weasel Mrs. Toad is malingering at home, lolling around in bed, watching movies on iTunes and generally just doing bugger all. I WANT TO GET SICK! I never get fucking sick. If I ever have time off work it's either because my back is crippling me, [...]
Et si Jeff Buckley jammais avec Fuck Buttons , entouré de musiciens foutrement doués, se mettant à réciter la bible entrecoupé de poésie sur le fait que le Texas EST la terre promise, alternant les mélodies fragiles et le déluge sonore en une fraction de seconde, sans prévenir. S'il brandissait un squelette de tête de buffle dans sa main gauche, moulinant une guitare sur-saturé démoniaque de la main droite, et récitait en même temps ses textes irréels avec une voix d'ange, le tout devant une Cigale médusée, qui attendait naïvement Mercury Rev [...]
Uncut Magazine and I had a pretty amazing relationship between the turn of the millennium and about 2004 or 2005. Basically, I would buy it every month and turn straight to the reviews section and the cover mount CD of what they considered to be the best of new music released that month, and devour both simultaneously, taking notes about what I wanted to spend that monthís meagre wages on. Those cover mount CDs were amazing, at the time, and almost invariably related to that monthís new releases, but in the last few years they have become way, [...]
some bands make music that's totally immersive - press play and you have to listen, soak your head in it. lift to experience were like that. maybe it's the religion. maybe it's the headfucking sound. live they were an inspiration. and they did it just right: release one amazing album and then split the fuck up. released by bella union in 2001. lashings of ginger beer.
A little while back we had the chance to talk with Matthew Kelly, the lead singer of indie-rocker outfit The Autumns . He tells about the group's early foray into space-rock, his favorite "under-the-radar" artists, and Stuff White People Like . The Autumns - Killer in Drag Tell about the band's formation. One of the guitar players, Frankie Koroshec and I, started playing music together in high school. And then when we [...]
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