Track Listing

1. Hold Out Your Hand
2. You By My Side
3. Silently Falling
4. Lucky Seven
5. Safe (Canon Song)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #108628 in Music
• Released on: 2006-11-27
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Customer Reviews

Great album, but NOT a remaster
I have to admit, I stuffed up and bought this thinking, after seeing the issue date, that it would be a re-master. Stupid, as it doesn't actually say that it is anywhere. Instead, it's a bog-standard Wounded Bird re-issue, reminiscent of 1980s CD releases: indifferent sound with artwork merely shrunk down from the vinyl to fit in the CD case, rendering it unreadable. This does open out to present a clearer set of credits, but it's all very feeble and, with a proper, remastered version out now, there's no reason to get this one. It's a fantastic album, and it's incredible that Squire only did this one solo effort, but do yourself a favour and get a decent release.

Prog rock genius at work
'Fish Out Of Water' is almost a lost Yes album, but Chris Squire really lets rip here with some frantic tracks that rock harder than anything in the Yes back catalogue. Armed with ample support from Bill Bruford and Patrick Moraz amongst others, Squire shows the full force of his powerhouse approach to how the bass can be played. 'Hold Out Your Hand' is a distinctive and memorable track, but 'Silently Falling' is probably the best song on the album. Starting off with some peaceful flute, you are lulled into a false sense of security. As the vocal section starts, the song starts to build momentum, until the vocals end and the music starts doing the talking. When Squire and Bruford get going, there are few rhythm sections that can match the raw power and excellence of their playing. Apologies if I'm wrong here, but the Organ solo sounds like it must be Patrick Moraz, and is very reminiscent of the sort of frantic playing he produces on 'Relayer', but whoever it is, it is one hell of a star turn!

Safe (Canon Song) is an even longer track that goes much the same way as the brilliant 'Silently Falling', and the 'climax' to the song (and the album) is taken to almost ridiculous extremes! 'You By My Side' and 'Lucky Seven' are not so good, so otherwise I'd happily give this album a 5/5 rating, but I think that with 3 great tracks, they deserve a star each and the excellent musicianship of Squire and co. deserves a star in itself too, so 4/5 sounds about right. If you like your progressive rock albums like Yes's 'Relayer' or King Crimson's 'Red', this album will delight. A real hidden gem of an album.

Fantastic
The best Yes solo album, by a long way. After making the album Relayer, Yes briefly split to allow the band members to produce their own solo work. This was Chris Squire's offering. Squire is not John Anderson, and the songs on this album retain the musicianship and complexity of Yes without the tweeness of Anderson's lyrics and vocals. And boy, is there some incredible musicianship on this album. For example a manic piece of keyboard work by Patrick Moraz on "Silently Falling", and some wonderful orchestration on "Safe (Canon Song)" the denoument of the album which is awesome and stays just the right side of overblown.

I love this album to bits.