Editing Relayer (section)

===Reception===
====Critical reception====
{{Album reviews
|rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
|rev1score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name=allmusic>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r22457|tab=review|label=Album review Yes ''Relayer''|first=William|last=Ruhlmann|access-date=16 September 2011}}</ref>
|rev2 = [[Pitchfork (website)|''Pitchfork'']]
|rev2score = 5.3/10<ref>{{cite web |url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/11869-the-yes-album-fragile-close-to-the-edge-tales-from-topographic-oceans-relayer-going-for-the-one-tormato-drama-90125/#review-album-13614/ |first1=Chris |last1=Dahlen |first2=Dominique |last2=Leone |first3=Joe |last3=Tangari |date=8 February 2004 |title=Pitchfork: Album Reviews: Yes: ''The Yes Album'' / ''Fragile'' / ''Close to the Edge'' / ''Tales from Topographic Oceans'' / ''Relayer'' / ''Going for the One ''/ ''Tormato'' / ''Drama'' / ''90125'' |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |publisher=Pitchfork Media |access-date=31 October 2014}}</ref>
| rev3 = The Daily Vault
| rev3Score = B+<ref name=vault>{{cite web |url= http://dailyvault.com/toc.php5?review=2019 |title=The Daily Vault Music Reviews : Relayer |first=Jason |last=Warburg |work=dailyvault.com |year=2019 |access-date=29 January 2019}}</ref>
|rev4 = Sea of Tranquility
|rev4Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.seaoftranquility.org/reviews.php?op=showcontent&id=1312|title=Review: "Yes: Relayer (remaster)" - Sea of Tranquility - The Web Destination for Progressive Music!|website=www.seaoftranquility.org}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev5Score = (unfavourable)<ref>[http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/yes/albums/album/87305/review/6067851/relayer] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071105061456/http://www.rollingstone.com:80/artists/yes/albums/album/87305/review/6067851/relayer |date=5 November 2007 }}</ref>
|rev6 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
|rev6Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last1=Brackett|first1=Nathan|last2=Hoard|first2=Christian David|title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide|date=2004|publisher=Simon & Schuster|isbn=0-7432-0169-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/895 895]|title-link=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide}}</ref>
}}
''Relayer'' received a mostly positive reaction from music critics. Music journalist and author [[Chris Welch]] gave a positive review for ''[[Melody Maker]]'', praising the album as "one of the most successful and satisfying Yes albums". He described "The Gates of Delirium" as a "powerful piece ... and benefits by the time structures imposed by this single album." Welch continued to note the band "at their best, creating tension and release with consummate ease, and preparing the way for Jon's crystalline vocals" at the end of the battle section which segues into "Soon".<ref name=welchreview>{{Cite news|title=YES – Art Out of Electronic Orchestration|date=1974|work=Melody Maker|first=Chris|last=Welch}}</ref> In its December 1974 review, ''Billboard'' magazine called ''Relayer'' "another nearly flawless effort" by Yes and noted Moraz "fits in perfectly". It concluded with "one of the simpler, yet at the same time, one of the most workable sets the band has come up with."<ref name=billboard>{{Cite news|title=YES-Relayer|date=21 December 1974|magazine=Billboard}}</ref> Those who gave the album a negative review thought it was the follow-up to ''Tales from Topographic Oceans'' (1973), an album they felt was pretentious and overblown.<ref>"Top Pop Albums 1955–2001", Joel Whitburn, c.2002</ref>

In a retrospective review, [[AllMusic]] rated the album three stars out of five, stating Yes had "little incentive to curb their musical ambitiousness" at the time, the album "alternated abrasive, rhythmically dense instrumental sections featuring solos for the various instruments with delicate vocal and choral sections featuring poetic lyrics devoted to spiritual imagery."<ref name=allmusic />

====The band====
Howe described the music on ''Relayer'' as "very modern, European style of music, and Patrick brought in a South American flavour as well. It was a very international record".{{sfn|Morse|1996|p=50}} Squire thought some of the interaction between his bass and White's drums was better than anything heard on previous Yes albums at that point.{{sfn|Morse|1996|p=52}} Moraz summarised the album's recording as "pretty loose, but the energy is there".{{sfn|Morse|1996|p=52}} Upon its release, Wakeman was asked to review it for the [[BBC]] and felt pleased that the band had made it as it was "far too jazzy and freeform, which I didn't like". Had the group recorded music more melodic and thematic, he would have felt angry as it would have been the direction that he thought Yes should have adopted. "I'm pleased I made the right decision to leave the band when I did".{{sfn|Popoff|2016|p=54}}