YES

MIKE BARNES

Fragile (Super Deluxe Edition) RHINO Prog landmark gets an LP, four CD and Blu-ray bonanza.. With a new keyboard player and each bandmember contributing a solo track, Yes’s fourth album, 1971’s Fragile, could have been a real mish-mash. But those short, imaginative pieces fit together and serve as effective links. After Roundabout– Yes in excelsis and the single most brilliant amalgam of pop melody and 70s prog exploration – Rick Wakeman’s contribution, Cans And Brahms, 90 seconds of Brahms played on various keyboards, is a pretty, if inconsequential confection. It was chosen because he was still under contract to a different publisher, which is also why he has no writing credits on the album. “Steven Wilson looks at Fragile from a different angle.” Similarly brief is Jon Anderson’s We Have…

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