TEXAS IS THE REASON
DO YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION (REVELATION)
- The complete recorded discography featuring Do You Know Who You Are? & the self-titled EP, as well as two B-sides never before on CD/digital, and two previously unreleased tracks written in 1997 and recorded in 2012 with J.
Robbins. - Two-LP set, gatefold, mastered and sequenced for high-fidelity - LP pressed on color vinyl, includes digital download They came from some of the most popular, if not polarizing hardcore bands of the early 90s (SHELTER, 108, RESSURECTION), but by the time TEXAS IS THE REASON formed in 1994, a new aesthetic crystallized almost instantly and reduced its members' previous efforts to history.
Indeed, it was only a year later, when Revelation Records released the band's self-titled EP - their name derived from a lyric in the MISFITS song "Bullet" - that TEXAS IS THE REASON were already headlining their own tours in America and well on their way to defining a new moment in post-punk.
In April of 1996, the band reinforced that initial success with their first and only album, produced by JAWBOX's J.
Robbins and named after the last words that John Lennon was alleged to have heard: Do You Know Who You Are? In the years since, Spin, Alternative Press, and Paste would all go on to call Do You Know Who You Are? an essential 90s album.
Unfortunately, after a year of heavy promotion and touring for the record, inner-band tension came to a head, and TEXAS IS THE REASON officially split in 1997.
Its members would go on to form JETS TO BRAZIL, NEW END ORIGINAL, and ATLANTIC/PACIFIC.