Mirror to the Sky is out - and Prog review

[bondegezou]

I know MttS isn't technically out until Friday, but some people have already received their pre-orders.

The latest issue of Prog reviews the album. The reviewer has good and bad things to say, but calls it the best Yes album for >20 years. There's also a 6-page article about the making of the album.

[Gilly Goodness]

Also has Sir Mike Oldfield on the cover!!!

A must buy. Any juicy nuggets??? 🤔

[Gilly Goodness]

Already usin' a quote from the review. That was quick...

[bondegezou]

Also has Sir Mike Oldfield on the cover!!!

A must buy. Any juicy nuggets??? 🤔

The entire back cover is an ad for the album.

The article is nice, but not that much new if you've read/watched obsessively every other interview to date.

[colsky]

I know MttS isn't technically out until Friday, but some people have already received their pre-orders.

The latest issue of Prog reviews the album. The reviewer has good and bad things to say, but calls it the best Yes album for >20 years. There's also a 6-page article about the making of the album.

I'm just reading my copy of Prog now. The review is by Sid Smith, one of the magazine's most respected journalists. It's mostly a good review. His only negative seems to be a dislike of Living Out Their Dream - "plodding dreariness" "unimaginative rocker whose by the numbers presence here is baffling". Yep, I'm guessing he doesn't like it!

[patrickq]

I'm just reading my copy of Prog now. The review is by Sid Smith, one of the magazine's most respected journalists. It's mostly a good review. His only negative seems to be a dislike of Living Out Their Dream - "plodding dreariness" "unimaginative rocker whose by the numbers presence here is baffling". Yep, I'm guessing he doesn't like it!

Does Smith need to walk a fine line here? He’s been employed by the band in the past, hasn’t he?

[bondegezou]

Does Smith need to walk a fine line here? He’s been employed by the band in the past, hasn’t he?

He did liner notes for the Panegyric re-releases about a decade ago, so he would have been employed by Panegyric. Panegyric were licensing the album material from Warner.

[colsky]

Does Smith need to walk a fine line here? He’s been employed by the band in the past, hasn’t he?

I don't think he has. As Henry says he's written liner notes for Yes before, but not for the band. He's well known for being a fountain of knowledge about King Crimson, and wrote their biography a few years ago.

[patrickq]

^excellent points. Thanks!