CLOSE TO THE EDGE

In a very long time ago, at the beginning of , in short you will have understood, it happened at a time, YES wanted to become one of the fantastic 4 without passing an audition; so he released this album!

1 Close To The Edge .. for 2'30 of cacophony of instrumental intro... yes at the time that was it, musical fury, to understand from afar the immense Denis chronicler of good music who does not can listen to this sound.. 50 years later, long before this will become a cult album in the dino prog sphere; more than 2 minutes where the blood heats up in your arteries; 4 'and Jon advances the title with chiseled verses, Steve throws a bunch of notes, Chris with a surly bass shows that we could use it in another way, Rick the great one of the precursors of the Mellotron , Hammond and other keyboards, Bill just checking to make sure everyone was playing evenly, ready to throw a wand at them; what to say about this piece if not that it was avant-garde at the time, classic to the max; hold the break with drops of water and solemn, vibrant organ, on a digression, Jon returns alone, in chorus, latent moment which explains that the prog can end up there.... it goes up, the organ makes you wet your white hair in the neck, the church organ, the one you can't criticize... the slap, the heavenly moment! ouh listen there when it rises, hums, spins, spins... in apnea you are; the heavy return with this machine-gun bass leaves you cautious, is it still music... the keyboard solo reassures you, it was a test, you get some air, well you won't die of suffocation today... .it starts again, a title like that you can't translate it, just emit a strange feeling between religious beauty and contemporary rock art, the anecdotal bucolic finale 2 And You And I starts with the sound and the themes deployed previously, more yessian... well, that one is good; a conglomeration of annoying, swirling sounds, on a symphonic prog leering towards 'il est le soleil' well, that reminds me of Ange that; in short Steve and Rick fire sound fragmentation shells and explode the fundamental 3' maxi to go on the radio! here it's extreme high and that's good; Steve denigrated today for his sinister mine (that of those who rightly criticize him) ignites the microgrooves of the LP and erases the potential crackle; we are ready for nirvana I tell you! 3 Siberian Khatru for the little piece, well, 8' in the nostrils it's mind-blowing all the same: a crimsonian sound in my opinion like on 'Red', dark, black and disconcerting; choirs in shambles thrown in the food and an Anglican solo from a spy movie, a 16th century harpsichord and the solo that kills, strawberry marshmallow lightly toasted on the barbecue... giant; today an album of this scale I give it 3, 3.5 max because I know it and it becomes agreed, when it comes out I dare not imagine the head... the ear of the first listens, a 5! How many times have I been able to listen to it? a book album, a bedside record, well, I no longer remember the machine-gun drums that follow Jon's vocals, in short, madness until the Flash Gordon-style finale... ah, that was after I thought well

YES releases a bomb that every novice must listen to while strapped to their chair to avoid dropping out and falling into an irreversible musical syncope, I will have warned you