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Feb 22, 2013Taylor's chameleon-like always-hiding-in-plain-sight aesthetic gives us a poignant, compelling recording that warrants repeated listening.
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Feb 22, 2013Admittedly, Taylor’s patented droning mantras can be a bit numbing when stretched out to an hour. But when his artistic vision hits exactly the right balance with his emotional thrust, it’s hard to imagine the music sounding any other way.
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Classic Rock MagazineJun 6, 2013My World Is Over proves to be another step up. [Feb 2013, p.95]
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Feb 22, 2013The music is ... okay. It’s okay. Probably the most conventional of Taylor’s 13 albums, My World Is Gone is usually at its best when driven by electric guitarist Mato Nanji, who gives a fine sense of the distance to and from the grand lost landscape that the words evoke.
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Feb 22, 2013My World Is Gone is an enveloping, at times even uplifting album, its charms diminished only by moments of jumble and overreach.
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Mar 4, 2013Taylor's vocal presence is gruff and minimal to a fault, but musical textures that entwine banjo, mandolin and cornet are often arresting.