2019 release. Signaling a newly galvanized creative stream from the electronic music legend, Paul van Dyk releases Music Rescues Me, which follows his wildly successful, critically embraced comeback album, From Then On. Part tribute to/part personal mediation on music's seemingly limitless capacity to heal, restore and lift, it's a subject that has rapt Paul to the greatest of degrees. Though it might have been it's seed, Music Rescues Me is not about music bringing one person back from the brink. This is about it's ability to open us up, to stimulate mental imagery, to unlock or bring back memories. It's about it's hard-to-fathom capacity to support us and get us through our tougher or more challenging times, as well as sound tracking the good ones. This, to me, goes beyond the mere 'inspirational'. This is something else. That music can 'unlock' us, allow us to access emotions and places our mind might not otherwise go to is extraordinary. It's both force and a gift in that respect. This album is a celebration of this most mysterious, impalpable and wonderful of music's natures.