Yes have launched ‘Turnaround Situation’, the second track lifted from their 24th studio album Aurora, which lands on 12 June via InsideOutMusic/Sony Music.
The single arrives with a visualizer from Matt Hutchings, who also handled the earlier ‘Aurora’ video. Singer Jon Davison describes the song as “part confession, part redemption”, written from the realisation that ignoring your conscience tends to catch up with you. As he puts it, the right road is usually the harder one, but it gives back clarity and a kind of inner freedom in return.
Aurora came together after the Classic Tales of Yes tour wrapped in 2024, built across home setups and stitched together through constant collaboration, with Steve Howe producing and acting as the point all ideas flowed through. Howe frames it plainly: the band are not trying to echo the past, but to carry the spirit of Yes forward into something new. The title track itself set the tone, sparking the visual direction that brought artist Roger Dean back into the fold.
The album spans everything from the seven-minute opener to the sprawling 13-minute ‘Countermovement’, and will be available across a range of formats including a deluxe green vinyl artbook edition featuring Roger and Freya Dean’s artwork.
We have a soft spot for a band this far into their career, still chasing curiosity! And 24 albums in, Yes clearly have no intention of standing still.
