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"There is a gentleness to Kathleen Taylor. It can be heard in the twinkle of her vocal delivery, the wide-eyed wonder of her lyrics and the warmly plucked acoustics of her guitar and banjo work. The world at large is the palette she paints from with words and a wisdom. Vocally, Kathleen has a teasing quality. It is voice where childhood innocence meets adult experience.
‘Defy The World’ is her second effort. The album combines influences as diverse as the instrumentation which brags melodica, tuba, vibraphone, omnichord, baritone guitar, trombone and french horn in its arsenal. The title track is a march with a chorus that is a call to arms as it waves a lyrical banner. Ignoring what the mirror and the chatter of doom-sayers tell her, Taylor keeps a focus on the end game as horns and rhythm propel the song along. Slower movements keep a pace equally determined though more of a waltz than an attack on ‘Old Enough to Know Better’ and with a breezy air on ‘Moonlight and You’ and ‘Cul-De-Sac Apocalypse’. This album embraces the organic side of playing and provides a persistence generally more at home with full throttle rock and dance projects.
Austinite Kathleen Taylor was California born, Colorado/Florida raised against a backdrop of her mothers Townes Van Zandt, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen records. Her male dominated influences gain a female perspective and delivery on ‘Defy The World’ while her music remains genre free and innovative."
 
 
 

"Everything about this debut by Austin-based Florida transplant Kathleen Taylor - from its strikingly original songs and production to the battalion of marching frogs on its cover - is an exhilarating breath of fresh air.  Taylor's voice as both a writer and singer is steeped in richly poetic whimsy; but the production and arrangements here, rife with instrumental flourishes like tuba, vibraphone, banjo, musical saw and cricket chirps, transform her music into something truly extraordinary.  The opening "Satellite Cats" plays like Paul Simon at his most playful crossed with Lewis Carroll, and "Defy The World" just gets weirder and more wonderful from there, like the soundtrack to a surreal fairy tale.  Fittingly, its plenty dark, too, with songs like "Cul-de-sac Apocalypse" and "Old Enough to Know Better" that shimmer and shiver like ghost-lit fever dreams.  Best of all, though, is the title track, a personal battle cry as rousing as it is sonically inventive.  Defy the world, indeed."- Richard Skanse, Texas Music Magazine, Spring 2009/Issue 38
 
 
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Kathleen Taylor interviewed by host, Heather Miller-Rodriguez, on her lovely show, Lyrical Venus, on KRUU-FM, Fairfield, Iowa, March 3rd, 2009
 
To listen to this interview, please visit:     http://kruufm. com/node/5245
 
Also, check out Heather's awesome blog at:  http://lyricalvenus.com/
 
 

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Kathleen Taylor was selected as the World Independent Music Association's (WIMA) artist of the month for March 2009.  WIMA is a wonderful organization that helps musicians and folks in the music industry!!!  Please check out their site! 
http://www.myspace.com/worldindiemusicassoc