DRAMA

This is an album that produced some of the most stunningly beatiful music to ever come out of the Yes camp. They seemed to be on a creative rampage, aided by fresh ideas from two new members, who made important contributions to the album. The songs "Machine Messiah", "Tempus Fugit" and "Camera Camera" are some of the best tracks Yes ever recorded, and are superb specimens of symphonic progressive rock, showcasing incredible imagination, compositional skills and dazzling instrumental acrobatics. There is a certain freshness and a sharpness that Yes has already lost on some of the past releases, and have fully recovered on this one. It's their best album since Going For The One, and they've never been able to match its inspiration since then, although 90125 came close. It's probably the most underrated Yes album, and certainly one of the most overlooked progressive albums.