Title: Same stuff all over again
Product review: The concept behind the album is flawed: one live disc, one disc in the studio. The live songs have obviously been "enhanced" in the studio, especially the vocals, so they sound lifeless and do not recreate the magic of this reunion in a small theatre in California. As for the studio songs, only "Mind Drive" is really interesting. The rest sounds like a collection of progressive rock clichés. There's little coherence in the songs, the band just pastes together different bits and pieces hoping that in the end, some form of song will emerge. Maybe this type of material will please nostalgic fans of prog-rock but to me it sounds more like a band trying too much to copy what they were doing in their golden age. There's nothing "progressive" about that material, this formula has been done before, and with a lot more success, on albums like "Close to the Edge" and "Fragile". As a reunion of the "classic" Yes lineup, it's a disappointment.
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