Fly From Here 2011

"With Benoît David taking up the vocals instead of Jon Anderson, "Fly From Here" is bound to get its share of detractors, but if one can deactivate the irrational parts of the fan brain, I think that one will find that this sounds like, well, it sounds like Yes.

We are dealing with progressive rock here, and it has all the things that the classic, and less classic albums from the 70s had - that is spacey keyboards, genre transgressions, complex song structures and other twists and turns, and, of course, long songs - on this album, they have limited the number of epics to the five part 20+ minutes title song. Musically, everything is the way it should be, I think.

And vocalswise? Well, I like what Benoît David is doing. His voice is similar to that of Jon Anderson, but it has a finer, or perhaps more delicate, quality, and he certainly has his own vocal-identity and contributes to the sound in his own way.

I like this album, and I hope that it will be received positively and that fans will be open-minded, challenging the view that progheads are intolerant and narrowminded snobs, and accept a fine album with a fine vocalist in stead of decrying Jon Anderson's absence."