Chris Squire says Yes fans can expect an accessible but still adventurous album when the veteran prog rock troupe releases its new "Heaven and Earth" on July 8.
"It's pretty well song-based in many ways, but it also has the kind of Yes style of expanding songs into musical pieces," the bassist and sole constant in Yes' 46 years tells Billboard, adding that of the album's eight songs, "there are three that are on the longer side, nine-, 10-minute sort of long songs. So it's definitely got the Yes stamp of arrangement on the album, there's no doubt about that."
"Heaven and Earth," which the group recorded at the beginning of the year with producer Roy Thomas Baker in Los Angeles, is the follow-up to 2011's "We Can Fly" and Yes' first with frontman Jon Davison, who joined the group in 2012 after tenures with Glass Hammer and Sky Cries Mary.
"The way Yes works is when we have a new member come in, as in Jon Davison, it's appropriate that we see what differences we can get out of a new contributing member in order to keep Yes interesting," Squire says. "Jon's done a pretty good job. He worked with the other four of us on a couple of tracks each, and we've come together at the end of the album with some very strong music." The album is currently being mixed by Baker, who had previously worked with Yes on a scotched late 70s album.
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