Although there were no membership changes between 90125 — Yes’ biggest hit; it went triple platinum — and Big Generator, it still took them four years to make the follow-up, primarily due to tensions between producer Trevor Horn, who left the sessions after a few months, and keyboardist Tony Kaye. Ultimately, guitarist Trevor Rabin took over, and the result is a glossy, thoroughly ’80s hard-rock album, with some weird touches at the margins.

One of those weird touches comes right at the beginning: “Rhythm Of Love,” the second single, starts with ambient keyboard washes and wordless, Beach Boys-esque vocal harmonies. It doesn’t stay that interesting, though; the song itself is a stomping radio rock track that could have been written and recorded by any ’60s or ’70s artist still grubbing for a hit at the end of the ’80s. It could be a Starship song.

The title track offers a few diverting noises, too, like the scat singing at the beginning and a guitar solo that sounds like an alternate version of the one from “Owner Of A Lonely Heart.” And “I’m Running,” which at 7:38 is the longest track here, has enough shifts in mood to recall what Yes once were. But overall, this album is the sound of a band giving up and just doing whatever they think will get them another hit. Three of the track titles have “love” in them (“Rhythm Of Love,” “Almost Like Love,” “Love Will Find A Way”) and are so achingly generic, they could have appeared on any album, by anyone. No surprise, then, that after Big Generator’s release, Jon Anderson wandered off again, this time to form Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe.