ARC OF LIFE

Don’t Look Down FRONTIERS

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Yes spin-off freewheels off track. It’s a common malaise for albums to sag in the middle – beginning and ending strongly but losing the plot in between. But the second album from this project led by Yes’ Jon Davison and Billy Sherwood has the opposite problem. Don’t Look Down is bookended by two self-consciously complex, long-form tracks that just don’t quite convince. Opener Real Time World is hobbled by a stammering tempo that wilfully ties a potentially promising musical thread up in knots. A breathlessly busy accompaniment ensures all the players get something difficult to do in every second of the track, but it adds up to something less satisfying. At the end of the album Arc Of Life is a meandering 17-minute affair, chasing its own tail via jazz-inflected…

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