When Yes members each decided to release solo LPs, all roughly in 1975, one of the stronger creations was Chris Squire's "Fish Out of Water." Composition has always been Squire's strong point; that and a muscular electric bass technique. This album readily features both.To begin the record with strains from London's St. Paul's Cathedral organ and the inclusion of a full orchestra could be warning flags for that sorry state known as rock and roll pretentiousness. Of course, from a strict punk point of view, all progressive rock is condemned as pretentious, but for those who embrace the ideal of a highly developed, through-composed, and cereberal rock music genre, Squire and his orchestrator Andrew Pryce Jackman make these out-sized collaborations work.
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