"Evolution" the title of the disk is definitely not fair. It is built up once again after the typical pattern: just contacted on the face, but gently with plenty of melody, a few delicate ladies vocals, a few "stars" from the pond and comes out what one has heard a thousand times. It Tiesto, it is Armin and his associates, but it has nothing to do with the term "development" or do "change".
I want Paul to deny any musical talent or even put his integrity as an artist in question, he is one of the great, perhaps one of the greats, he was able to create hymns, but his works are only exchangeable rave anthems. He also has the wire to song-oriented pieces, very clear! But overall, it lacks the new plant to density. Also I feel the vocal-heavy pieces partly annoying. "I Do not deserve you" would work just as well without a quota club ladies vocal, not only on the Maxi Non Vocal Edit, the same is true for "The Sun After Heartbreak".
I miss the "Evolution" a unique selling point, I miss a certain kind of humor and I miss the intellectual handling of a trance. Paul was the times. I have most of the pieces to clichéd and bulky and they are working with sounds that I, in 2012 can not understand today. In "Evolution" is otherwise virtually no progressive sound to hear, let alone Dubstep bonds. The Paul van Dyk is a Jakwob, the idea is absurd enough.
Unfortunately the drive for me is nothing but-honored trance sound as it exists for years. But at least it attracts Paul as a brand consistently and that is indeed what. There's the United Kingdom Luckily.
