| Yes Relayer
4.2 excellent
| Ranking: #23 for 1974 | |
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4.0 excellent | MeatSalad | April 26th 14 | there's 2 painfully wrong soundoffs on this page
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4.5 superb | clairvoyant | February 19th 07 | Gates of Delirium is easily my favorite Yes song ever, and in my opinion is the most underrated progressive rock song. From the fantastic beginning, to the "journey" section, and the phenomenal battle section, it is a complete song. Sound Chaser is a very jazzy style track and is the only one that really shows Patrick Moraz's influence on the album. To Be Over is definitely the weakest track on the cd, but it is by no means a bad one. This is easily a must have album for any Yes, let alone prog rock fan.
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4.0 excellent | GamamJ | August 30th 20 | Shockingly good considering no Beuford or Wakeman. I was slightly worried about this album as I love both the aforementioned guys. However, this album caught me off-guard being possibly even better than CTTE imo! Rawer and jazzier, this is Yes at their best. Howe puts down some amazing guitar-wprk, time is all over the place, and the atmospheric keyboards sound really great.
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5.0 classic | ivanhowe2017 | November 28th 17 | “Relayer” is perhaps one of Yes´ most representative works of the 1970´s progressive years, due to the complexity of the songs, the musicianship provided by each member and, of course, Jon Anderson´s voice. For the first time, Rick Wakeman is not present on the line-up performing on this studio effort, leading the band members to hire Swiss keyboardist Patrick Moraz on a temporary basis, while Wakeman was away, working on other solo projects, most evidently his epic orchestral masterpiece “Journey To The Centre of The Earth”, released the same year as Relayer. But, even though Moraz was a very talented keyboardist, he could not excel Wakeman´s musical excellence. So, his tenure with Yes was short-lived. In spite of Wakeman´s on-off relationship with his Yes band mates, the band did a magnificent job here, equaling the likes of other previous works such as “In A Word” (1969-70), “The Yes Album” (1971), “Fragile” (1972), and “Close to The Edge” (1972). “The Gates of Delirium” and “Sound Chaser” are the major tracks to check out, due to the band´s complex performance rather than the length of each of them (Average length: 21-22 minutes). Anyone who is already familiar to other Yes classics should not be taken by surprise when listening to these tracks. This magnificent piece of work is also complimented with shorter tracks like “Soon” and “To Be Over”, and followed by an Edited version of Sound Chaser. Sound quality and digital remasterization: In 2006, Rhino, an EMI/Warner subsidiary, became responsible for improving the sound quality and doing the digital remasterization process of the original 1974 recording, which, IMHO, is very well-done and adapted to this masterpiece. Overall, it is a highly recommended item worth to be added to your music collection.
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1.5 very poor | EasterInTheBatcave | March 10th 16 | NOTE: I have the 2014 remix by Steven Wilson, which comes with single edits of "Soon" and "Sound Chaser." Some great stuff (the intro and instrumental breaks in "Sound Chaser," the end of "The Gates of Delirium"), but this is just so dated. The vocals, in particular, reek of '70s panache. Also, the closer drags.
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5.0 classic | didacon | February 29th 16 | This album literally changed my life. In my opinion, Gates of Delirium is easily the greatest prog track ever recorded. Most fans of Yes will tout Close to the Edge as their greatest album, and I wont deny its superior quality. But if you ask me, Relayer will always be their most masterful piece of art.
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4.5 superb | Onirium | July 14th 15 | If several guiding lights of the prog scene were at the time pulling structural influences from
classical music, a significant portion of the genre's leading - and more obscure - artists
preferred borrowing for jazz. Yes was undeniably part of the former category - although it would
be ignorant to separate the scene into two categories - Close to the Edge, a perfect example,
being constructed in a way so often compared to the structure of a sonata. However, was it the
arrival of the brilliant Patrick Moraz, or anything else, Relayer sees Yes experimenting with
brand new refreshing ideas borrowed to the jazz-fusion movement that was flourishing at the time.
And the result is a nothing less than a sonic explosion, one that is rather hard to absorb after
only the first few listens. Getting used to it, you nevertheless begin to discern the lushness and
depth of the music, of which new subtleties are discovered at every subsequent listen. The
contrast game played between complex and heavy jazzy passages and soft lyrical divagations reveals
itself as especially effective; transitions which originally seemed clumsy start making sense;
everything is set to form one of the band's most interesting works. And Yes seem more sonically
united than ever - additionally, Alan White, whose playing can sometimes be rather uninteresting
when compared to Bruford?s, proves himself here as being more than brilliant.
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3.5 great | Alex C. | March 27th 15 | Structured like their previous two discs, Yes continue to raise the level of wackiness and prog delirium in their proposal.
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4.0 excellent | ijy10152 | July 7th 14 | The fact that so early in it's career a band could write a third album with at least one 20+ minute epic is incredible. Considering they went for the same format as Close to the Edge track listing wise you knew this would be heavily compared with it and for good reason. It's not quite as good as Close to the Edge , but if we judged everything based on that comparison very few albums would ever get good ratings.
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0.0 | mandan | March 4th 13 | Relayer does a fine job of showing of the band's intrumental prowess. The one flaw here is that the first track is far too long.
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