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Toronto-based singer-songwriter Julian Taylor has been part of the musical fabric and landscape in Canada for two decades. Taylor enjoyed a breakthrough year in 2020, when his second solo acoustic album, The Ridge, earned more than five million plays on Spotify, praise from press worldwide, and airplay from America to Australia to the U.K. In addition to winning Taylor Solo Artist of the Year at the Canadian Folk Music Awards, The Ridge was also nominated for: two Juno Awards, the Polaris Prize Long List, a Summer Solstice Indigenous Award, a Canadian Music Week INDIES Award, and an additional Canadian Folk Music Awards nomination in the English Songwriter of the Year category.

How do you follow-up a career high point? For Taylor, you double down on upping your game by striving to exceed the creative fruits that have already blossomed from the artistic spark that got you there in the first place. Taylor's new album, Beyond the Reservoir is further evidence of a songwriter pushing the very boundaries of his creativity. Taylor has succeeded in surpassing both his and our expectations with the nine profoundly interpersonal songs found on his stunning new solo effort.

The inherent compassion and humanity entrenched all throughout Beyond the Reservoir show Taylor is well in tune with the soul of his restless muse in a way that's personally relatable to everyone who's listening. It's an album that captures the moments that changed just about everything. Beyond the Reservoir is the justly attained artistic apex of one Mr. Julian Taylor, a duly established career artist still looking over the rim to see where he can take us, and himself, next.

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This is Taylor's best work to date and a strong contender for one of the records of the year!

     —maverick-country.com

Beyond The Reservoir is a folk and roots rock treasure trove of nine tracks...full of stunning musical highlights. From the stark and gripping tale of 'Murder 13' to the soulful musings of 'Opening The Sky', Taylor's delivery is remarkable.

     —Gerrod Harris, spillmagazine.com

The acclaimed Canadian singer-songwriter's new country/folk album tells a devastating but ultimately empowering coming-of-age story.

     —Carol Roth, adventuresinamericana.com

An album steeped in deeply personal growing pains that touch on universal feelings, veined with sadness and joy, anguish and hope...it confirms Taylor as one of the finest voices in contemporary Canadian folk music.

     —Mike Davies, folkradio.co.uk

If his past record and its formula for success is any indication, Beyond The Reservoir is set to shatter expectations and further let listeners into the life of Taylor, one of the wisest and brightest songwriters currently north of the border...'

     —Matt Wickstrom, wideopencountry.com

Although this album is good musically, with many songs having melodies that grow on you over time, it is the compelling lyrics with such humanity which stand out and are its strength.

     —Andrew Raw, https://americana-uk.com/

Recommended for anyone who loved The Ridge, this release is that rare follow-up that doesn't disappoint one bit.

     —Will Chernoff, rootsmusic.ca