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Who'd have thought it? Magnification is the strongest, freshest set of new Yes material in living memory and fundamentally different to anything the veteran prog-rock unit has ever recorded before. Having thoroughly exhausted the world's supply of classically inclined rock keyboard players (Tony Kaye, Rick Wakeman, Patrick Moraz, Geoff Downe
Who'd have thought it? Magnification is the strongest, freshest set of new Yes material in living memory and fundamentally different to anything the veteran prog-rock unit has ever recorded before. Having thoroughly exhausted the world's supply of classically inclined rock keyboard players (Tony Kaye, Rick Wakeman, Patrick Moraz, Geoff Downes and Igor Khorosev) the four remaining--and possibly exasperated--members of Yes have taken the fantastically brave decision to dispense with that perennially bothersome ivory-tickling slot altogether. And so Messrs Anderson, White, Squire and Howe have enlisted the temporary services of Emmy-award-winning television and movie score composer Larry Groupe, whose cinematic orchestrations--dancing flutes, Bond theme brass, tsunami-like strings--lend a whole new and thoroughly modern aura to the band's sonic palette. Anyone expecting smugly complacent, stagnant, stuck-in-the-1970s prog-rock (and the keyboards were always the giveaway) will be thoroughly disappointed by the emotionally engaging ambition, revised logic and sensibly-channelled instrumental prowess of the material on offer. "We Agree", "Dreamtime" and--particularly--the impressively widescreen and superbly melodicised "Give Love Each Day" are all stand-out tracks on an album which--as the title suggests--really does hold up well to close scrutiny. --Kevin Maidment
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Track listing1. Magnification
2. Spirit of Survival
3. Don't Go
4. Give Love Each Day
5. Can You Imagine
6. We Agree
7. Soft As A Dove
8. Dreamtime
9. In The Presence Of (Deeper, Death Of Ego, True Beginner, Turn Around And Remember)
10. Time Is Time
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