I promised that I would keep my finger on the pulse of CD cover concepts and this is the third album I have found with "breast cupping". Please understand that I'm not actively seeking them, they just seem to stand out when I'm browsing through endless covers. As you can see this one is slightly overshadowed by a large, pregnant belly, painted with what looks like a depiction of the Earth. I'm assuming this is some sort of Mother Earth symbolism? However, I ignored any misgivings about a possible hippy ambush and made the purchase.
Taste Of Joy are pleasant enough, a fairly straightforward guitar band featuring a female vocalist, their sound sits somewhere between the Bangles, Voice Of The Beehive and the Go-Go's but maybe with a more folky twang. Most tracks are well-crafted and enjoyable without being massively memorable, the type of album that you have on in the background and soon passes by before you've really noticed.
Titles such as Gun Pointed, Hands Are Tied, Loaded and Went To Jail seemed to suggest a lot of weaponry might be involved and possibly even some trailer park revenge crime but that's probably just my warped impression of the American dream. In fact, Hands Are Tied had a pleasant Belly (no pun intended) feel about it, that nice drawling vocal sliding between the guitars. So Long gives a welcome short, stripped-back pause before the slow-burn rocking continues. There's a slight feel of the Beatles on some tracks, an aspect I'm not really keen on.
Top Tracks: Hands Are Tied, Blood Divine.
Verdict: Fail - the wrong type of belly.
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