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ARTIFICIAL JOY

Taylor's Universe

 

RIO/Avant-Prog

3.68 | 24 ratings

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Windhawk
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4 stars "Artificial Joy" is the second album issued in 2009 by Taylor's Universe, a band now really finding it's footing again following long time associate Karsten Vogel's extensive run with the band.

On this album Taylor and his collaborators take on a subtly more symphonic-tinged approach than on the last few albums, as well as incorporating some of the more challenging features from Taylor's solo works on a few occasions - unless my ears decieves me there's quite a few nods in the direction of one album in particular of those, namely November.

As always there's a few stellar tracks around, personally I found the brooding synths come symphonic with noisescapes inserted workout Days Run Like Horses to be the most intriguing of these, while energetic, quirky opener Work and the multi-segmented, brooding composition named Laughter are at about the same level of interest. The only number that didn't really trigger my interest was Atmosfear actually, a multi-segmented affair that became just a tad too segmented for these ears.

Still, all in all it's yet another high quality effort courtesy of Taylor & Friends, to be sought out by fans of highly melodic yet challenging instrumental progressive rock residing somewhere within the borderlines of jazzrock, art rock and symphonic prog.

Windhawk | 4/5 |

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