KEYSTUDIO

Keystudio is the last of Yes' weakest period of albums. This album is arguably the best and most interesting of the '80s, '90s, and '00s Yes albums for the fact that it loses some of it's plastic synthesizer sounds that made recent albums sound so cheap. The songwriting here is at it the highest point it's been since Going for the One, which feel really weird to say. Unfortunately, the ambitious epic tracks don't nearly live up to their classic epic tracks. The epic tracks also lack any stand out moments, as does the rest of the album.

Fortunately, Yes would follow up this album with their best album for two decades, Magnification.