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#131 (permalink) |
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Yes is coming out with a new album in May. They released this video for one of the songs a couple days ago.
It's OK I guess. Like a lot of legacy bands, their newer stuff sounds sort of like overly-processed, generic versions of their older stuff.
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Is it just Steve Howe remaining from the classic lineup now? I heard some of the last album and I thought it was pretty boring. But I haven’t really enjoyed a Yes album on that gut level since Drama. There’s some later stuff that has parts that are kinda dope but even those feel like hollow mimics of their better days.
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Man this sounds so phoned in it's sad, no hooks and way overproduced. Yes without Anderson is a hard sell for me but Yes without Anderson AND Squire? This isn't Yes anymore. Sherwood is no Squire though he's trying I guess, and say what you will about Anderson as a lyricist he sure as hell can do better than this, these lyrics sound like a sh*tty poem some kid made after listening to a Neil Degrasse Tyson podcast. I do dig Howe's little guitar solo around the 3 minute mark but even he barely makes much of a presence here.
If Yes are just gonna be a glorified cover band from now on I dunno why they even bother making new songs. At least the Roger Dean artwork is neat, as usual.
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I pretty much agree with the opinions of you guys, and while the toned-down Yes-type music was playing, I focussed on the lyrics. They start out as a tolerable pastiche of J Anderson on earlier albums. To me their structure suggests Siberian Khatru (Outboard, river/Bluetail, tailfly) with a little nod to Roundabout in the choice of the word "walkabout" :-
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That zero-G line is cringe indeed.
A big part of what makes Yes so great is how dynamic their music is and I'm just not hearing any of that in this new stuff.
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Yep, absolutely agree on both counts, Queen Boo. This latest song is also lacking any of those spectacular synth moments that Rick Wakeman used to add to the mix.
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While we're on the subject, I've honestly always loved Anderson's mystical mumbo jumbo lyrics. It adds a lot to making their music feel otherworldly and whenever he tried to be more concrete and traditional in his lyrics I felt it wasn't as compelling.
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Yes, a lot of people dismiss his lyrics as pretentious nonsense, and they are a little difficult to defend, especially after JA admitted that he chose words for their sound, not their meaning. But yeah, he comes up with some great unusual combinations of words, and in the end I think they add to the music's longevity, simply because you'll never really understand what the songs are about.
"How can the wind with its arms all around me?" "Move over glory to sons of old fighters past" Great stuff!
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