ACROSS THE UNIVERSE

Danish project TAYLOR'S UNIVERSE has been an ongoing feature for more than 20 years in various guises, and more than a dozen studio albusm have seen the light of day over the years. "Across the Universe" is the most recent outing by the band, released through Robin Taylor's own label Marvel of Beauty Records towards the tail end of 2015.

Taylor's Universe has been a quality provider of compelling but challenging instrumental progressive rock for more than two decades, and this collection of altered versions pulled from the more recent history of the project comes across as an appealing production on all levels, and arguably the album released by the project that will have the broadest general appeal at this point. It is subtitled "An Introduction to Taylor's Universe", a functional description that comes across as apt on all levels, but it is also an album well worth checking out by those that have already warmed to the charms of this fine Dane and his revolving sets of contributing musicians.