KEYSTUDIO

Why did they do it?! What on Earth were they thinking? What was the record company or the YES management thinking? This is the "Keys To Ascension" album that should have been released. Why did they split it into two different parts and then release it with some live content which, incidentally, could also have been released itself, as a magnificent live album? I've got these (all three of them) albums and KEYSTUDIO is the one that I regard as being the standalone legitimate "Keys To Ascension" album by YES. It is classic YES - Anderson, Howe, Squire, Wakeman and White - writing and recording real Yes music, as if they were transplanted back to the early/mid 1970's. It is a brilliant album which should get 5 stars but only gets four here because of how they've completely messed up this whole period. Of course I still put on the other (excellent) Keys to Ascension albums from time to time, mainly for the live content but KEYSTUDIO is the main go to album for me.