Hailing from Denton, Texas, Lift to Experience fuse tongue in cheek fire and brimstone Southern sermons with searing dynamic noisefests that would sound more at home on a Ride or My Bloody Valentine album.

The Texas Jerusalem Crossover is a raging bull of a record, always kicking against the pricks and re-appropriating the dodgy dogmas of religion into a strange and distorted rock n’ roll sanctuary.

It comes as little surprise to learn that guitarist Josh T Pearson’s father was a Southern preacher and that ‘lil Josh incurred the wrath of Denton when he first picked up the “devil’s instrument”. His primal musicianship and raw have-a-go attitude is overwhelmingly heroic and devastatingly original. It’s hard to listen to ‘Waiting To Hit’ or ‘The Ground So Soft’ without feeling nicely uncomfortable and oddly displaced.

You’d never expect a double concept album about Texas being the Promised Land to be as perversely good as this. And we can only hope that this is but the first fiery chapter.