TOWARD THE SUN

The music is pretty and the band sounds exactly like classic Yes. The album cover is in the vein of roger dean the bassist, the guitarist the vocalist, honestly everything on this album sounds like Yes. This is literally a lost Yes album.

The first song cuts right to the chase, organ and a guitar line a la Yes? The singing eventually comes in and the dude sounds like Anderson, it's a nice voice and the melody is nice. An alright song, the opening could have been shorter same with the ending.

Track two has lovely acoustic guitar mellotron and singing to make a pastoral song. The song eventually picks up and the singing becomes unnecessary/bad. This soon passes and the song heads to acoustic guitar plus lalalalas then electric guitar solo. This song feels a bit disorganized, could use some trimming.

Track three opens with guitar that rambles a bit before becoming a surprise jazz section, nice. The guitar then comes back and the song continues with guitar/pads/drums/bass till the song ends. Like the previous tracks it's okay, needlessly long though.

Track four has a different tone to its guitar opening, sounding like the Rolling Stones on a chill song circa 1970. Lalas eventually come to change the songs direction to symphonic. I like the opening.

Track five is the shortest song at 3:24 and opens with piano. Yes, it is a ballad. The piano fades, and super calm singing begins over the synth pad sound. The song then ends.

Track six is a big one. Starting with a strong riff? This song has a good opening full of successful buildup. Then a strong guitar solo that fits the background well comes to up the ante. Singing then comes, powered by bass. After this section comes a cool mellow Ron interlude that introduces a new vocal section that is neat, very intimate (dudes actually a good singer). A neat acoustic guitar interlude allows for a spacey section to become a brief closing guitar solo over happy wind support. A good song.

Track seven follows in the mold of six with acoustic guitar and mellotron for the first sections plus singing. Most of the singing here is beautiful. In the middle somewhere is a guitar solo and the song ends with classical esque drumming. This is a lovely track with an infectious happiness.

Overall this is a solid album, definitely completely unoriginal but hey, the music is still nice.