Connor Shubrook - 5/4/2011

First of all I want to state how monumental Tiesto's rise to fame has been and how he has managed to maintain such an unprecedented level of quality in his albums for such a huge length of time.
The start of the album begins with a slower level of dance fixation, with light riffs and a quiet of pulse of synthetic bleeps and blurs. Half way through the opening track ' Now and Forever ', the track begins to play how the rest of the album carries on, with an intensely high level of power and pure trance anthems guarenteed to fill a dancefloor in your local nightclub or a stadium tour.
The transformation this album has taken since the release of Kaleidoscope (his 2009 studio release), is quite frightening when you look at the quality of the equipment he is using now compared to then and has definately improved the way the music plays through. The real hardcore dance lovers will begin to feel the rush from around track 8 ' Don't Ditch ' where the tone of the album changes and grows into quicker tempo of music which flows through the mind like waves on a beach. This upbeat flow of light bass and electronic riffs expands as a sound as you approach the Kaskade tune ' Fire in your new shoes ' and the phenominal finale song ' C'mon '. The unbelievable sound sensations this song creates is spine-tingling and the heavy bass turning to light dubstep is a future hit for summer clubbing.
After several plays of the album in a single sitting (which is no easy feat), I believe this album has topped his excellent ' Elements of Life ' and genre changing ' Just Be'. Simply due to the journey taken by the listener and the noticeable improvement in sound perfection, this has to be one of the ultimate albums of the year and this listener is eagerly awaiting the release of an undoubtful Volume Two.