Billy Sherwood’s serrated guitar is surrounded once more by the ghostly keyboards of Tony Kaye as “The Citizen” opens — but it all seems to fall away, to recede into the background, once the dearly missed Chris Squire steps to the fore.
Squire, who passed earlier this year after a brief bout with leukemia, plays with a familiar limberness, but also with a familiar force. The combination of those two things, like light and dark, would have given new shades of meaning to Sherwood’s new song no matter the circumstance. But “The Citizen,” released today (Oct. 30, 2015) in advance of his forthcoming album Citizen, is inextricably bound up in circumstance.
This marks a long-hoped-for reunion between Chris Squire and his protege Billy Sherwood, now the last in Squire’s absence. Since his former Yes bandmate’s death, Sherwood has stepped in to complete previously scheduled band dates, even as he struggles through his own grief. Though recorded long before any of this unfolded, “The Citizen” nevertheless must bear the weight of that loss, too.
It’s a lot of ask of any song, and that’s without noting that Tony Kaye’s presence marks a return to collaborations with Chris Squire that date back, off and on, to Yes’ earliest music. “The Citizen” has to both embrace and transcend that history — history that’s both lasting, and emotional.
It’s a lot of ask of any song, and that’s without noting that Tony Kaye’s presence marks a return to collaborations with Chris Squire that date back, off and on, to Yes’ earliest music. “The Citizen” has to both embrace and transcend that history — history that’s both lasting, and emotional.
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