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PAUL TAYLOR Exposed

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Paul Taylor is one half of Sutcliffe No More, formerly Sutcliffe Jugend. He is and was also a member of Inertia, Bodychoke and Slaves No More. Most of his music has its background in the power electronics scene that evolved in Great Britain around the label Come Organisation and the group Whitehouse. Power electronics is a style of noise music that typically consists of static, screeching waves of feedback, analogue synthesizers making sub-bass pulses or high frequency squealing sounds; with screamed and distorted vocals. The genre is noted for its influence from industrial. It is generally atonal, like most noise music and also features a lack of conventional melodies or rhythms. To match its sonic excess, power electronics relies heavily upon extreme thematic and visual content: whether in lyrics, album art, or live performance actions.Paul played his first show as a solo artist in Vienna in spring 2024, presenting the dark ambient album Submerged (still available from Klanggalerie) live. In October he performed solo in Italy presenting music from this new album, Exposure. Paul describes the album as what he does in the studio when not working with Kevin Tomkins. A lot is recorded, but very little sees the light of day. Exposure is more Power Electronics than Submerged, but still different to Sutcliffe No More. Full tracklist: 1. Exposure 2. United States Of Pain 3. A Strange Day 4. Electrocution 5. Oriental Kiss 6. Eaten Alive 7. Deutsch 8. TBWN 9. Unexplained 10. Mechanisation 11. Phoria. Price: € 19,-/copy incl. worldwide shipping.

It is interesting to notice Taylor taking a lot of liberty to go anywhere he wants. There is pulsating noise feedback and screaming in the opening title piece or the bleak ambient industrial soundtrack of A Strange Day. These are the musical opposites of this album. Taylor uses vocals, synths, bass and electric guitar, allowing him to take a more expansive musical journey. Its primarily unpleasant music, and the noise end takes the lead, but the music remains bleak and austere even when it doesn’t. It is the perfect dystopia soundtrack, and I found the variation between genres somewhat opposite, which is the albums strong point. That was the thing that made the music quite a journey and not a repetition of similar pieces, which is what noise albums tend to do. All in all, a great album.
(Vital Weekly, January 2025)