Close To The Edge returns to the site for only the second time in fourteen months, here with KILLER Shootout Winning Triple Plus (A+++) sound or close it throughout his vintage copy
An incredibly complex recording, with huge organs, light-speed changes and an abundance of multi-tracked parts – these early pressings are the only ones that can make sense of this challenging music
On such a dynamic recording, with so many quiet passages, finding reasonably quiet surfaces is a dubious proposition for even the most committed audiophile, as is the case here, sad to say
But on the bright side, once you hear just how amazing sounding side one of this copy is, you might be inclined, as we were, to stop counting ticks and pops and just be swept away by the music
If any pressing will let you do that, it’s this one!
5 stars: “Close to the Edge comprised just three tracks, the epic ‘And You and I’ and ‘Siberian Khatru,’ plus a side-long title track that represented the musical, lyrical, and sonic culmination of all that Yes had worked toward over the past five years.”
This album is a Must Own from 1972, one that deserves a place in any audiophile’s collection
Close to the Edge is an album with one set of very special stampers that have consistently been winning shootout after shootout for years now
