The 17th album from this artist from Great Britain.
This band, as this is really a band album, is a sextet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, keyboards and vocals.
I have yet to dig into my Jon Anderson solo albums for reviews so this is the first of his solo albums I am reviewing.
Strictly speaking, this is not a Jon Anderson solo album. It is a cooperation between him and The Band Geeks. The latter one is a quintet and a band in it's own right.
The Band Geeks was also Jon Anderson's backing band on some gigs and they decided to go into studio together. This to record some new songs.
The songs here is either a tribute to Yes or very much in the same vein as Yes. This is the most Yes like album I have ever heard outside Yes itself. So much that it almost make sense labelling this album as a lost Yes album. With Jon on the vocals, that is an interesting debate.
This instant Yes factor is both due to the vocals and the band successfully trying to sound like Yes.
There is one long song here clocking in at almost seventeen minutes. The other songs on this one hour long album is shorter and more punchier.
The songs are a bit on the sweet and sunny end of what Yes did of symhonic prog. The balance between shades and light you normally got on a Yes album is not present here.
That said, the songs are all very good and we are talking a very good to great album. There is some superb vocals here and that elevates this album to a great album indeed.
This is one of the best prog rock album of this year and a triumphant return of Jon Anderson. I take my hat of to him and this album.
4 points
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