The Yes are working on the third studio album since 2021

The Yes They are recording their third album in less than five years, as confirmed by the keyboardist Geoff Downnes. Before this recent creative explosion, they had only released three studio projects since 2000. “We have been working on a six -month album,” says Downnes at Classic Rock. “Steve Howe – The band’s guitarist – He is at the helm and I think he will come out towards the end of the year “.

Initially it was not clear if the Yes would return to the studio after “Heaven and Earth“Of 2014, the latest album of the Yes released before the death of the historic bass player Chris Squire In 2015.

Then Howe produced two new LPs in rapid succession, “The Quest” of 2021 and “Mirror in The Sky “ of 2023. Both were successes from top 30 in the United Kingdom.

Also the longtime drummer Alan White He died in 2022, but the group maintained a regular tours of bassist tours Billy Sherwoodchosen by Squire as a substitute, and the veteran Jay Schellen as a drummer. The guitarist Steve Howe, who came into formation in 1970 after the band’s second album, is the only “historical” (but not founder) member of the band. Since 2012 Jon Davison He is the frontman singer of the English band.

In 2024 the reprints of two historic albums of the band also came out, “Fragile“Of 1971 and”Talk”Of 1994. The reprint of”Close to the edge“Of 1972, was published at the beginning of this month of March.