New Yes - Heaven & Earth

From Melodic Rock.com

Heaven & Earth contains eight new tracks, each of which boasts the unique musicianship and craftsmanship that have come to be known as “the Yes sound.” Yes' distinctive layered music, swirling arrangements, brilliant vocals and harmonies are all in abundance. Heaven & Earth is an album sure to please both long-time and new Yes fans. For Heaven & Earth, Yes teamed up with legendary Grammy Award winner, Roy Thomas Baker (Queen, The Cars, Guns N' Roses, Foreigner, Smashing Pumpkins, Alice Cooper, etc.), who handled the production and Billy Sherwood (Toto, Paul Rodgers, Air Supply, etc.) who mixed the album. Also onboard is long-time Yes artist, the world-renowned Roger Dean, who again brings his masterful artistic creativity to the album's cover art and packaging.

Tracklisting for Heaven & Earth: 1. Believe Again 2. The Game 3. Step Beyond 4. To Ascend 5. In A World Of Our Own 6. Light Of The Ages 7. It Was All We Knew 8. Subway Walls.

To coincide with the release of Heaven & Earth, the multi-platinum progressive rock band--bassist Chris Squire, guitarist Steve Howe, drummer Alan White, keyboardist GEOFF DOWNES and singer Jon Davison--announced in March they'll launch their 35-date summer tour featuring Yes performing, in their entirety, 1971's groundbreaking album Fragile for the first-time ever and a repeat performance from last year's tour of 1972's Close To The Edge, followed by an encore of the band's greatest hits.

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I had no idea they had another new lead singer. What's up with Jon Anderson? He is unvailable? Sick? Falling out with the band? I also see Geoff Downes is in on keys. They sound decent too, found a clip with the new singer.

I think Anderson was sick when they were winding up for the last album. I forget what the specifics were, but it was to the point of "Make your peace, because you might not pull through."

There's some bad blood at this point that nobody in the band apparently contacted him or showed any concern about his health. They just replaced him with a younger guy and got back to work.

Truth lies somewhere in the middle, so I suspect that may be an overly dramatized reading on Anderson's part, but it's still pretty skeezy from a legacy act that isn't (hopefully) living paycheck to paycheck. I mean, would it have killed them to wait for him to get back together?

So it's the typical Styx/Journey/Foreigner singer replacement story.

"Fly From Here" was very good, the suite in particular. Will check this out.