The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads

with an album cover like that I was expecting this to be some kinda trashy country with some Kid Rock-like rap metal type shit turns out this is one of the greatest psychedelic/shoegaze rock albums I’ve ever heard in my life what a contrast with a cover that bad, and an album that good! - 10/10

Having a weird déjà vu moment where I could've sworn I'd already listened to this one as part of the list. In any case, I'm glad to have the chance to give it another listen because if I already did, I sure didn't appreciate it at the time. While I'm definitely giving subconscious brownie points as a native Texan, the sheer expanse of this LP is flooring and worthy in its own right – each track is anthemic in its own right, and every nook and cranny of these lengthy songs has clearly been thought out and executed to the fullest. Even with pioneering bands like Wednesday and Greet Death (who this reminded me a lot of) bringing countrygaze to the masses, it's still a niche genre with few practitioners, so it was cool to add another qualified band to the list. My main qualm with this LP was the lack of breathing room – not every track can be massive, and dynamic contrast exists for a reason. There's almost too much of a good thing here as well, the chunky runtime drowning out some of the more impressive moments on the album. Cut this down to an hour or so and it's a lean, mean 5-star gut punch of guitar in concept album form. Finally, hidden tracks that are cloaked behind 15+ minutes of silence are a personal pet peeve (but hidden tracks in general are cool!). Despite these nitpicks, I really enjoyed this LP for being so radically different and committing fully to its conceptual bit. Shame these guys haven't put out anything further, would've been interested to hear their artistic development on a second full-length. There is some badassery to dropping an album of this length/caliber as your debut and promptly disappearing though, and it was a great addition to the list all-in-all.

Like a bizarre cross between At The Drive-In and Drive By Truckers, but more religious overtones than either. A cracker I would otherwise never have heard; thanks for the pointer!

I didn't know this and it was certainly not what I expected after seeing the album art and reading the wiki page. It's a nice mess of post-rock, shoe gaze and indie rock. I like the concept of the album. Too bad not all the tracks are of the same high quality and the album is too long and a bit incohesive.

Just dragged a bit for me. Good in points a mess in others

This is a case of don't judge a book by its cover. Not at all what I expected. Shoegaze at times with some excellent guitar and ambient work

This suprised me a bit. Reading the description, I thought it wasn't going to be something for me. But the guitarwork is excellent, and there were a couple of very good songs

Rating: 7/10 Best songs: Waiting to hit, The ground so soft

This is really interesting. Quite ambitious for a first (and only) album. I wonder why they never recorded anything else. 4 stars.

The boys are back in town

The most legendary example of inverse correlation between cover art and music quality. Glad to revisit!

When Texas gets weird, they get fucking *weird*, man. (See also: Butthole Surfers, 13th Floor Elevators, Tripping Daisy/Polyphonic Spree) This was an ethereal and noisy post-rock record. It dragged on a bit, as post-rock records often do, and at 90 minutes, it was a lot to take in, but was interesting enough. The concept of the record - that Texas is the Promise Land following the second coming of Christ - kind of makes this record feel like it could have been found audio that survived the raid of the Branch Davidian Compound in Waco…if, you know…David Koresh was really in to My Bloody Valentine.

Didn't really do it for me. The pseudo religious lyrics didn't convey any narrative arc I could discern, and if it was meant to be satirical, then of what? Southern religiosity? No objections to it musically but I didn't need tow albums of it.

What you're about to hear is the kind of cutting-edge musical critique that only I can provide: This album which has a length that is long... It feels long. Hold thine applause. >:0 Maybe I'll love it one day, as there seems to be some genes shared with Spiritualized and Godspeed You! Black Emperor. As of now, I haven't learned much beyond what I gathered from snippets off of RateYourMusic and Wikipedia, that they're some Texans who play their guitars really loud and ramble for about 1-2 hours concerning Texas and religion. Generally when those two things are combined, it makes something incredibly problematic, but in the case of the Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads, it comes together pretty nicely all things considered. I typed all of this in the 14-minute space before the hidden track 'untitled'. It's a good length of time to pause and reflect. If the house band at my local evangelical church were introduced to drugs, do you think they would sound this good? 3.5 October 29, 2025 (rated user album #200 today. The second second of eternity has passed)

This played while I listened. Occasionally it sounded like the Strokes but less good

Never has an album had me thinking “wtf is this?” as much as this one has. Is it serious? Is it a parody? Or is it a concept album? You decide, because I can’t.