Deep dive into Yes’ divisive 1978 LP.
he saga of still irritates Rick Wakeman, who says this much-maligned album’s mix superfan Kevin Mulryne painstakingly unravels the story of the allegedly thin and flat sound of this infamous album by unpicking conflicting accounts of what now-archaic 70s audio technologies were used, or rather weren’t. He also reveals various tales seemingly straight from the annals of Spinal Tap. These include the definitive saga of how the album was saddled with a terrible pun for a title, band members using biorhythm calculators to make decisions and the testing of new instruments by dropping them out of helicopters.
