I’m invariably embarrassed by the frequent references to my affection for the prog-rock of the early 1970s at There Stands the Glass and at Plastic Sax. I just can’t shake my unfashionable predilection. For instance, viewing the multitude of Spanish traffic roundabouts near Madrid’s airport from above involuntarily put Yes’ 1971 earworm on repeat in my head recently. Portions of “In the Blink of an Eye,” the second track on the new self-titled My New Band Believe album, sound like a contrafact of “Roundabout”. The press materials accompanying the album references Bert Jansch, John Renbourn and Judee Sills, but that’s a red herring. The recording overseen by Cameron Picton of Black Midi revives the arty British sound of 10cc, Gentle Giant, Roy Harper, Henry Cow, Robert Wyatt and- yes- Yes. It’s ridiculously twee, and I can’t get enough of it.
