Fly From Here
| Fly from Here | ||||
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| Studio album by Yes | ||||
| Released | 22 June 2011 | |||
| Recorded | October 2010–February 2011 | |||
| Studio | SARM West Coast Studios, Los Angeles, California, U.S. | |||
| Genre | Progressive rock | |||
| Length | 47:28 | |||
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Frontiers (Europe, US) Avalon (Japan) |
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| Producer | Trevor Horn | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Blurt Magazine |   |
| Daily Express | |
| The Guardian | |
| Paste Magazine | (8.2/10) |
| Sputnikmusic | |
| PopMatters | (6/10) |
Fly from Here is the twentieth studio album from the English rock band Yes, released on 22 June 2011 in France and Japan on Frontiers Records and Avalon, respectively, 1 July in Europe and Australia, and 12 July in the United States. Their first studio album in ten years, it is the only one recorded with singer Benoît David in the band's line-up following the departure of Jon Anderson in 2008. Former Yes singer and producer Trevor Horn returned to produce the album. Its highlight is the 24-minute "Fly from Here" suite, a track originally written by Horn and former Yes keyboardist Geoff Downes prior to them joining Yes in 1980.
Fly from Here received positive reviews from critics and peaked at No. 30 on the UK Albums Chart and No. 36 on the U.S. Billboard 200. During the recording of the album, Downes replaced keyboardist Oliver Wakeman thus becoming a full-time member for the first time since 1981, and David was replaced by Jon Davison after contracting respiratory illness, during the album's subsequent tour.
Fly from Here is the band's first studio album in ten years following Magnification (2001), the longest gap between two Yes albums. In 2008, while plans for a concert tour were taking shape, singer Jon Anderson required some time off after he suffered from a severe asthma attack. Rather than wait for Anderson to recover, remaining members Chris Squire, Steve Howe, and Alan White opted to tour, recruiting Canadian singer Benoît David in the process after Squire was introduced to him through a YouTube video with David singing in Close to the Edge, a Canadian Yes tribute band, which he was a member of over ten years. Yes resumed touring in November 2008, performing concerts worldwide with Oliver Wakeman, son of former Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman, after his father was advised not to tour by his doctor.
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