Usually I listen to music in my car (where I can turn it up as loud as I like) or through ear buds (during daily exercise). Sure, it has the best sound, but who has time to sit around like a teenager doing nothing else but listen to vinyl LPs? Living Out Their Dream' is a pretty nice highlight, sounds like something that has slipped away from the 'Going for the One' sessions. It was empty, with nothing in it, expect for a handful of tiny air-filled plastic cushions that scarcely made a dent into the empty space. Cut from the Stars" was primarily inspired by Davison's first visit to a dark-sky preserve at Joshua Tree National Park with his brother and father, who encouraged him to appreciate nature.

The group produced two versions of "Luminosity", having felt a new arrangement was needed after recording the first. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Magic Potion” has a nice, jangly main guitar line, but it suffers from the same ills as the preceding cut. But if any band deserves it, surely it is Yes, a band that introduced me early on to such wondrous arcana. Opener 'Cut from the Stars' is an upbeat Davison composition that does a pretty good job of introducing this new album with some fine melodies and playing.This one is by no means able to foreshadow the band's all-time classics from the 70s and the 80s, but is a great exercise in trying to recapture that joyful and affirming spark of creativity that has always been associated with the name of Yes.

I’m just insisting that “Cut from the Stars” and “All Connected” are the lesser tracks, and they do not reach the highest levels of Yes achievement, which “Mirror to the Sky,” “Luminosity,” and “Circles of Time” all do. It's not just the prevalence of extended song structures (long for its own sake can be terribly boring). The fact is that Mr Steve Howe, legendary guitar player is willing to keep the band alive and going strong, as this is their second release into the 2020s, some two years after 'The Quest', a record that was received positively enough. The legacy of Yes surely lives on, and 'Mirror to the Sky' is a good album that aims to point out exactly this! Philosophical conundrums aside, I haven’t been shy about dragging big-name acts through the mud when they put out a bad record.Speaking of bonus tracks, the second disk (featuring just three more songs) does not contribute all too much to the overall experience of the album, the songs there are in the same vein as the ones on the main disk, just more forgettable and repetitive. There is some 70's vibe here and it's when things are quieter that Jon Davison's voice sounds like Jon Anderson.