(Frontiers)
Progressive rock's original big beasts release their first album in a decade while the movement makes an unlikely revival among bands as diverse as Mostly Autumn and Everything Everything. Alas, Yes are no longer the conquering overlords whose long songs and twiddly time signatures sired Tales from Topographic Oceans and gave punk a nemesis. Cape-wearing keyboard maestro Rick Wakeman has gone with signature vocalist Jon Anderson, who is replaced by ? of all things ? a singer from a Yes tribute band. Fly from Here has a go at reproducing the vintage era. Housed in trademark Roger Dean sleeve, the title track ? an actually quite lovely pastoral anthem in six movements ? dates from a 30-year-old demo. And yet, meandering newer songs suggest that rediscovering creativity has been a problem. When the remodelled Yes end up reworking an old demo by Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes's other band, Buggles, (as Life on a Film Set) the game is surely up.
Amber Heard Veronica Kay Mýa Natalie Imbruglia Patricia Velásquez
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